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American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 42(136), p. 14702-14705, 2014

DOI: 10.1021/ja508615f

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Energetically Demanding Transport in a Supramolecular Assembly

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Abstract

A challenge in contemporary chemistry is the realization of artificial molecular machines that can perform work in solution on their environments. Here, we report on the design and production of a supramolecular flashing energy ratchet capable of processing chemical fuel generated by redox changes to drive a ring in one direction relative to a dumbbell toward an energetically uphill state. The kinetics of the reaction pathway juxtapose a low energy [2]pseudorotaxane that forms under equilibrium conditions with a high energy, metastable [2]pseudorotaxane which resides away from equilibrium.