A trimer of ultrafast nanomotors: synthesis, photochemistry and self-assembly on graphite.
Lightning quick! A new ultrafast light-driven molecular motor was developed, which was readily incorporated into a larger trimeric system. The trimer of these motors was studied with STM and at the interface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and 1-phenyloctane the molecules form stable arrays in which the chirality of the trimer is expressed on both the molecular and the supramolecular level (see figure).
Cnossen
Arjen
A
Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Pijper
Dirk
D
Kudernac
Tibor
T
Pollard
Michael M
MM
Katsonis
Nathalie
N
Feringa
Ben L
BL
D006108:Graphite / Q000737:chemistry*; D016252:Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling / Q000379:methods; D015394:Molecular Structure; D049329:Nanostructures; D010777:Photochemistry; D013816:Thermodynamics
D006108:Graphite