All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors

Van Vliet S, Sheng J, Stindt CN, Feringa BL. 2024. All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors. Nature Communications. 15, 6461.

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Van Vliet, Sven; Sheng, JinyuISTA; Stindt, Charlotte N.; Feringa, Ben L.
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Light-driven rotary molecular motors are among the most promising classes of responsive molecular machines and take advantage of their intrinsic chirality which governs unidirectional rotation. As a consequence of their dynamic function, they receive considerable interest in the areas of supramolecular chemistry, asymmetric catalysis and responsive materials. Among the emerging classes of responsive photochromic molecules, multistate first-generation molecular motors driven by benign visible light remain unexplored, which limits the exploitation of the full potential of these mechanical light-powered systems. Herein, we describe a series of all-visible-light-driven first-generation molecular motors based on the salicylidene Schiff base functionality. Remarkable redshifts up to 100 nm in absorption are achieved compared to conventional first-generation motor structures. Taking advantage of all-visible-light-driven multistate motor scaffolds, adaptive behaviour is found as well, and potential application in multistate photoluminescence is demonstrated. These functional visible-light-responsive motors will likely stimulate the design and synthesis of more sophisticated nanomachinery with a myriad of future applications in powering dynamic systems.
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2024-07-31
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Nature Communications
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Financial support from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO-CW), the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Gravitation program No.024.001.035), the China Scholarship Council (CSC PhD Fellowship No.201808330459 to J. S.). We thank Dr. Youxin Fu, Dr. Alexander Ryabchun, Dr. Wojciech Danowski, Dr. Jianyu Zhang and Yahan Shan from University of Groningen for their help to this project and fruitful discussions.
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15
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6461
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Van Vliet S, Sheng J, Stindt CN, Feringa BL. All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors. Nature Communications. 2024;15. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-50587-4
Van Vliet, S., Sheng, J., Stindt, C. N., & Feringa, B. L. (2024). All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors. Nature Communications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50587-4
Van Vliet, Sven, Jinyu Sheng, Charlotte N. Stindt, and Ben L. Feringa. “All-Visible-Light-Driven Salicylidene Schiff-Base-Functionalized Artificial Molecular Motors.” Nature Communications. Springer Nature, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50587-4.
S. Van Vliet, J. Sheng, C. N. Stindt, and B. L. Feringa, “All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors,” Nature Communications, vol. 15. Springer Nature, 2024.
Van Vliet S, Sheng J, Stindt CN, Feringa BL. 2024. All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors. Nature Communications. 15, 6461.
Van Vliet, Sven, et al. “All-Visible-Light-Driven Salicylidene Schiff-Base-Functionalized Artificial Molecular Motors.” Nature Communications, vol. 15, 6461, Springer Nature, 2024, doi:10.1038/s41467-024-50587-4.
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