A trimer of ultrafast nanomotors: synthesis, photochemistry and self-assembly on graphite

Chemistry. 2009;15(12):2768-72. doi: 10.1002/chem.200802718.

Abstract

Lightning quick! A new ultrafast light-driven molecular motor was developed, which was readily incorporated into a larger trimeric system. The trimer of these motors was studied with STM and at the interface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and 1-phenyloctane the molecules form stable arrays in which the chirality of the trimer is expressed on both the molecular and the supramolecular level (see figure).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Graphite / chemistry*
  • Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling / methods
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nanostructures*
  • Photochemistry
  • Thermodynamics

Substances

  • Graphite