Light-driven monodirectional molecular rotor

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6749, 1999, Pages 152-155

  Koumura, Nagatoshi ^a,b   Zijistra, Robert W J ^a   Van Delden, Richard A ^a   Harada, Nobuyuki ^b   Feringa, Ben L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHIRALITY; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALKENES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOTION; PHENANTHRENES; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0033539072     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43646     Document Type: Article

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