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Driving Feringa Motors with Visible Light by Intermolecular Singlet Energy Transfer from a Commercial [Ru(bpy)3]2+
Cheng Luo1, Guohong Liao2,3, Ziwei Jiang1
1Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials Co-constructed by the Province and Ministry, Ministry-of-Education Key Laboratory for the Synthesis and Application of Organic Functional Molecules, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, P.R. China.
Abstract:
We herein report that a commercialized photosensitizer, Ru(bpy)3Cl2, can be successfully employed to "uphill" drive the rotation of Feringa motors via a singlet rather than an intuitive triplet intermolecular energy transfer mechanism, offering new insights into the sensitization strategy to power Feringa motors with more biocompatible light sources.

