An electrochemically driven molecular shuttle controlled and monitored by C60.
Herein we describe a fullerene rotaxane, in which shuttling between two well-defined and distant co-conformations is both induced and monitored by the C60 stopper.
Mateo-Alonso
Aurelio
A
Italian Interuniversity Consortium on Materials Science and Technology (INSTM), Unit of Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Piazzale Europa 1, 34127, Trieste, Italy. amateo@units.it
Fioravanti
Giulia
G
Marcaccio
Massimo
M
Paolucci
Francesco
F
Rahman
G M Aminur
GM
Ehli
Christian
C
Guldi
Dirk M
DM
Prato
Maurizio
M
D004563:Electrochemistry; D037741:Fullerenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009038:Motion; D043862:Rotaxanes / Q000737:chemistry*
D037741:Fullerenes; D043862:Rotaxanes; C069837:fullerene C60