Title |
Induction of Motion in a Synthetic Molecular Machine: Effect of Tuning the Driving Force
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Published in |
Chemistry - A European Journal, April 2013
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DOI | 10.1002/chem.201204016 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Jacob Baggerman, Natalia Haraszkiewicz, Piet G. Wiering, Giulia Fioravanti, Massimo Marcaccio, Francesco Paolucci, Euan R. Kay, David A. Leigh, Albert M. Brouwer |
Abstract |
Rotaxane molecular shuttles were studied in which a tetralactam macrocyclic ring moves between a succinamide station and a second station in which the structure is varied. Station 2 in all cases is an aromatic imide, which is a poor hydrogen-bond acceptor in the neutral form, but a strong one when reduced with one or two electrons. When the charge density on the hydrogen-bond-accepting carbonyl groups in station 2 is reduced by changing a naphthalimide into a naphthalene diimide radical anion, the shuttling rate changes only slightly. When station 2 is a pyromellitimide radical anion, however, the shuttling rate is significantly reduced. This implies that the shuttling rate is not only determined by the initial unbinding of the ring from the first station, as previously supposed. An alternative reaction mechanism is proposed in which the ring binds to both stations in the transition state. |
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