A push-button molecular switch

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 11571-11580

  Spruell, Jason M ^a   Paxton, Walter F ^a   Olsen, John Carl ^a   Benítez, Diego ^b   Tkatchouk, Ekaterina ^b   Stern, Charlotte L ^a   Trabolsi, Ali ^a   Friedman, Douglas C ^a   Goddard III, William A ^b   Stoddart, J Fraser ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

[2]CATENANE; CATENANES; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FACILE SYNTHESIS; HIGH RATE; HIGH YIELD; INTERLOCKED MOLECULES; MECHANICAL SWITCHING; MOLECULAR SWITCHES; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; SWITCHABLE; SWITCHING MECHANISM; TETRATHIAFULVALENES;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

SWITCHES;

CATENANE; COPPER; TETRATHIAFULVALENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 68849102764     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja904104c     Document Type: Article

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