All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors Van Vliet, Sven Sheng, Jinyu Stindt, Charlotte N. Feringa, Ben L. ddc:540 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. Springer Nature 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article doc-type:Article Article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/record/17409 https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/download/17409/17418 Van Vliet S, Sheng J, Stindt CN, Feringa BL. All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors. <i>Nature Communications</i>. 2024;15. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50587-4">10.1038/s41467-024-50587-4</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41467-024-50587-4 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/e-issn/2041-1723 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/001282384300020 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/39085193 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess