A switching cascade of hydrazone-based rotary switches through coordination-coupled proton relays

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 757-762

  Ray, Debdas ^a   Foy, Justin T ^a   Hughes, Russell P ^a   Aprahamian, Ivan ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; HYDRAZONE DERIVATIVE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; PROTON; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ISOMERISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL PROCESSES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HISTIDINE; HYDRAZONES; IMIDAZOLES; ISOMERISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTONS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; ZINC;

EID: 84866487378     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1408     Document Type: Article

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