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A trimer of ultrafast nanomotors: synthesis, photochemistry and self-assembly on graphite
Arjen Cnossen1, Dirk Pijper, Tibor Kudernac
1Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|February 17, 2009
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).
