Issue 5, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Concerted motions in supramolecular systems: metal-mediated assemblies of porphyrins that behave like nanometric step-machines†

Elisabetta Iengo,*a   Teresa Gatti,a   Ennio Zangrando,a   Maria Teresa Indelli,b   Franco Scandolab  and  Enzo Alessio*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
E-mail: eiengo@units.it; alessi@units.it

b Dipartimento di Chimica, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Abstract

According to NMR evidence the metal-mediated sandwich assemblies of porphyrins 2 and 3 undergo in solution a thermally driven motion that resembles that of a stepper: the spontaneous rotational motion of the pyridyl rings is converted into a reciprocating linear motion of the porphyrins.

Graphical abstract: Concerted motions in supramolecular systems: metal-mediated assemblies of porphyrins that behave like nanometric step-machines

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC03513K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
27 Aug 2010
Accepted
11 Nov 2010
First published
26 Nov 2010

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 1616-1618

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Concerted motions in supramolecular systems: metal-mediated assemblies of porphyrins that behave like nanometric step-machines

E. Iengo, T. Gatti, E. Zangrando, M. T. Indelli, F. Scandola and E. Alessio, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 1616 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03513K

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