Measurement of the ground-state distributions in bistable mechanically interlocked molecules using slow scan rate cyclic voltammetry

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages 20416-20421

  Fahrenbach, Albert C ^a,b   Barnes, Jonathan C ^a,b   Li, Hao ^a   Benítez, Diego ^c   Basuray, Ashish N ^a   Fang, Lei ^a   Sue, Chi Hau ^a   Barin, Gokhan ^a,b   Dey, Sanjeev K ^a   Goddard III, William A ^b,c   Stoddart, J Fraser ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Donor acceptor molecules; Electrochemistry; Isomerism; Switches

Indexed keywords

CATENANE; CYCLOPHANE; ROTAXANE; TETRATHIAFULVALENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTRON; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTHRACENES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONS; ETHERS; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; ROTAXANES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84862907479     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109795108     Document Type: Article

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