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Molecular brake systems controlled by light and heat

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Machines at a molecular level are in perpetual Brownian motion even at an ambient temperature. One of the representative issues of researches on molecular machines is a development of technology, which can control Brownian motion. This review presents our efforts to achieve the first rationally designed molecular brake systems of threading/dethreading motions, a shuttling motion, and a rocking motion that work reversibly and quantitatively in response to external stimuli without producing any chemical wastes. These molecular brake systems were constructed from a dumbbell shaped secondary ammonium axle and a ring component having photo and thermally reactive moiety.

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The author thanks the Organizing Committee of Host–Guest and Supramolecular Chemistry Society, Japan for giving him the HGCS Japan Award of Excellence 2009 and the opportunity to write this review article. He acknowledges all collaborators for their efforts. He especially thanks Prof. Yoshito Tobe for his suggestions, discussions, and encouragements. This work was partly supported by the Izumi Science and Technology Foundation and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

This is a paper selected for ‘‘HGCS Japan Award of Excellence 2009’’.

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Hirose, K. Molecular brake systems controlled by light and heat. J Incl Phenom Macrocycl Chem 68, 1–24 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10847-010-9748-x

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