Prototypes of molecular motors based on star-shaped organometallic ruthenium complexes.
This tutorial review presents our strategy to control the rotation in a molecular rotary motor, and the family of star-shaped ruthenium complexes designed to perform such a task. The molecules have a piano-stool structure with a "stator" meant to be grafted on a surface, and a "rotor" bearing redox-active groups, so that addressing the molecule with nano-electrodes would trigger rotation.
Vives
Guillaume
G
CNRS, CEMES (Centre d'Elaboration des Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales), BP 94347, 29 rue J. Marvig, F-31055 Toulouse, France.
de Rouville
Henri-Pierre Jacquot
HP
Carella
Alexandre
A
Launay
Jean-Pierre
JP
Rapenne
Gwénaël
G