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A Shuttling Molecular Machine with Reversible Brake Function

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 11 2008
Keiji Hirose Dr.
Abstract Design, synthesis, and demonstration of a prototype of a shuttling molecular machine with a reversible brake function are reported. It is a photochemically and thermally reactive rotaxane composed of a dianthrylethane-based macrocycle as the ring component and a dumbbell shaped molecular unit with two, secondary ammonium stations separated by a phenylene spacer as the axle component. The rate of shuttling motion was shown to be reduced to less than 1,% (from 340 to <2.5,s,1) by reducing the size of the ring component from 30-crown-8 to 24-crown-8 macrocycles upon photoirradiation. The ring component was turned back to 30-crown-8 by thermal ring opening, thus establishing a reversible brake function that works in response to photochemical and thermal stimuli. [source]

Supramolecular Chemistry Based on [W3S4(H2O)6Cl3]+ , A Versatile Building Block

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 1 2004
Maxim N. Sokolov
Abstract The cluster [W3S4(H2O)6Cl3]+ (which is present in solutions of [W3S4(H2O)9]4+ in 1,4 M HCl) reacts with the macrocyclic cavitand cucurbituril (C36H36N24O12) to form supramolecular adducts of 2:1 cluster/cucurbituril stoichiometry, where two portals of cucurbituril (which contains a water molecule in its cavity) are closed by two cluster cations. These aggregates are bound together in the solid by complementary hydrogen bonds between coordinated Cl, and the cations H9O4+ to give chains. Thus, a supramolecular architecture is achieved from three different but complementary building blocks. The packing of the chains affords a honeycomb structure (hexagonal symmetry) with channels (about 5.2 Å in diameter). The overall stoichiometry is (H9O4){[W3S4(H2O)6Cl3]2(C36H36N24O12)}Cl3·16.15H2O (1). [W3S4(H2O)6Cl3]+ reacts with SbCl3 in 6 M HCl to give cuboidal [W3(SbCl3)S4(H2O)6Cl3]+, which forms with the macrocyclic cavitand cucurbituril a 2:1 cluster/cucurbituril adduct , a discrete supramolecule consisting of five independent molecular units. In the solid it crystallizes as a salt of very rare anion [SbCl6]3, with the stoichiometry {[W3(SbCl3)S4(H2O)6Cl3]2(C36H36N24O12)}(SbCl6)2/3·12H2O (2). (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2004) [source]

Dye-Doped Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS)-Modified Polymeric Matrices for Highly Efficient and Photostable Solid-State Lasers

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Issue 20 2009
Roberto Sastre
Abstract Here, the design, synthesis, and characterization of laser nanomaterials based on dye-doped methyl methacrylate (MMA) crosslinked with octa(propyl-methacrylate) polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (8MMAPOSS) is reported in relation to their composition and structure. The influence of the silicon content on the laser action of the dye pyrromethene 567 (PM567) is analyzed in a systematic way by increasing the weight proportion of POSS from 1 to 50%. The influence of the inorganic network structure is studied by replacing the 8MMAPOSS comonomer by both the monofunctionalized heptaisobutyl-methacryl-POSS (1MMAPOSS), which defines the nanostructured linear network with the POSS cages appearing as pendant groups of the polymeric chains, and also by a new 8-hydrogenated POSS incorporated as additive to the polymeric matrices. The new materials exhibit enhanced thermal, optical, and mechanical properties with respect to the pure organic polymers. The organization of the molecular units in these nanomaterials is studied through a structural analysis by solid-state NMR. The domain size of the dispersed phase assures a homogeneous distribution of POSS into the polymer, thus, a continuous phase corresponding to the organic matrix incorporates these nanometer-sized POSS crosslinkers at a molecular level, in agreement with the transparency of the samples. The silicon,oxygen core framework has to be covalently bonded into the polymer backbone instead of being a simple additive and both the silica content and crosslinked degree exhibit a critical influence on the laser action. [source]

(C6H14N2)2[VO(HPO4)5B2O]·H2O·H3PO4, a novel borophosphate cluster containing a single vanadium centre and linked by hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional framework

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 3 2003
Emma Wikstad
The title novel vanadium borophosphate compound, bis(1,4-diazo­nia­[2.2.2]­octane) ,3 -oxo-oxopenta-,-phosphato-diboronvanadium monohydrate phosphoric acid solvate, containing the cluster anion [VO(PO3OH)5B2O]4,, has been synthesized under mild hydro­thermal conditions. Extensive O,H,O and N,H,O hydrogen bonding is observed between the molecular units. [source]