Dynamic devices. Shape switching and substrate binding in ion-controlled nanomechanical molecular tweezers

A Petitjean, RG Khoury, N Kyritsakas…

Index: Petitjean, Anne; Khoury, Richard G.; Kyritsakas, Nathalie; Lehn, Jean-Marie Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004 , vol. 126, # 21 p. 6637 - 6647

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Abstract

As examples of supramolecular devices performing chemical (ionic, molecular) control of binding events and models of related natural systems, two molecular conformational switches are described, which display cation-controlled nanomechanical motion coupled to substrate binding and release. The substrate binding relies on donor/acceptor interactions, provided by intercalation between planar sites located at the extremities of the switching ...