Rotary Molecular Motors: A Large Increase in Speed through a Small Change in Design

Tatiana Fernandez Landaluce; Gabor London; Michael M. Pollard; Petra Rudolf; Ben L. Feringa

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Rotary Molecular Motors: A Large Increase in Speed through a Small Change in Design

Tatiana Fernandez Landaluce, Gabor London, Michael M. Pollard, Petra Rudolf, Ben L. Feringa^*

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Reducing the steric interaction between the upper-half and the lower-half of a light-driven rotary molecular motor by decreasing the size of the aromatic moiety in the upper-half from a naphthalene to a benzothiophene results in an almost 3500 times faster rotation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5323-5325
Number of pages	3
Journal	The Journal of Organic Chemistry
Volume	75
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/jo1006976
Publication status	Published - 6-Aug-2010

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