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Prototypes of Molecular Gears with an Organometallic Piano-Stool Architecture

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Building and Probing Small for Mechanics

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In the field of Molecular Machines, molecular gears have mainly been synthesized to be studied in solution. Then, the cogwheel subunits are restricted to be only arranged in an intramolecular manner. In the last years, the possibility to arrange a train of gears at the single molecular level and observe the propagation of a rotation motion from one molecule to its neighbor using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) opened new perspectives with the opportunity to have intermolecular arrangements on surfaces. In this chapter, we describe the research background of single molecular gears and our strategy using organometallic piano-stool complexes to anchor such gears on surfaces. Our molecules incorporate two subunits linked together through a ruthenium center acting as a ball bearing. The lower part is the anchoring tripodal ligand and the upper part the cogwheel. Various functionalities have been explored to behave as teeth, ranging from mono-dimensional phenyl rings to bi-dimensional porphyrin fragments.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) and the CNRS. It has received funding from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) (ACTION project ANR-15-CE29-0005) and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the project MEMO, grant agreement No 766864. This research was also partly supported by the JSPS KAKENHI grant in aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Molecular Engine (No. 8006)” 18H05419. Dr. Colin Martin is warmly acknowledged for his careful reading and improving of our manuscript.

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    Seifallah Abid, Guillaume Erbland, Claire Kammerer & Gwénaël Rapenne

  2. Division of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 8916-5, Japan

    Gwénaël Rapenne

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Abid, S., Erbland, G., Kammerer, C., Rapenne, G. (2020). Prototypes of Molecular Gears with an Organometallic Piano-Stool Architecture. In: Joachim, C. (eds) Building and Probing Small for Mechanics . Advances in Atom and Single Molecule Machines. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56777-4_5

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