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Electrochemistry of macrocyclic compounds: redox-switchable molecular systems

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The present review introduces the electrochemical properties of macrocyclic compounds in the light of their use as supramolecular electrochemically controlled systems with reversible switchable binding of ions, molecules and redox-triggered reversible molecular motion of components with respect to each other. In particular, the electrochemical properties of calix[n]arenes, macrocyclic biindolizines, pseudorotaxanes, rotaxanes and catenanes are comprehensively considered. Besides that, the present article provides the readers with the brightest examples of reversible redox-switchable molecular motions, redox-switchable shuttles on the basis of mechanically interlocked molecules such as catenanes and rotaxanes. Donor and acceptor structural blocks of considered macrocyclic systems are described separately with the aim to familiarize the readers with this information first before introduction to the redox-switchable systems on their basis. Finally, the paper contains references to the most important and comprehensive literature on the subject of redox-switchable molecular systems. This approach will be especially useful for young researches wishing to study and work in the field of design of electrochemically driven devices based on supramolecular complexes.

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Yanilkin, V.V., Stepanov, A.S. Electrochemistry of macrocyclic compounds: redox-switchable molecular systems. J IRAN CHEM SOC 20, 257–289 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13738-022-02667-9

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