Tuning-up and driving a redox-active rotor.
The dynamic bistable rotational behaviour of a copper(I) coordination environment can be rationally tuned with balancing the substituent size on the rotor. Such rotors are sensitive to weak interactions, and the rotation was driven by a redox reaction on a ferrocenyl moiety via reconstruction of the charge interaction between redox centres.
Kume
Shoko
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Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. kume@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Nishihara
Hiroshi
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D003300:Copper / Q000737:chemistry*; D005296:Ferrous Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D000075163:Metallocenes; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010316:Particle Size; D012399:Rotation
D005296:Ferrous Compounds; D000075163:Metallocenes; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D003300:Copper; C004998:ferrocene