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Molecular Transmission: Controlling the Twist Sense of a Helical Polymer with a Single Light‐Driven Molecular Motor
Author(s) -
Pijper Dirk,
Feringa Ben L.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200604941
Subject(s) - transmission (telecommunications) , molecular motor , twist , chirality (physics) , polymer , sense (electronics) , computer science , information transmission , nanotechnology , materials science , physics , telecommunications , electrical engineering , engineering , computer network , quantum mechanics , composite material , mathematics , geometry , chiral symmetry breaking , quark , nambu–jona lasinio model
Twisted sisters : Transmission of chirality from a light‐driven rotary molecular motor to the macromolecular level of a polyisocyanate allows fully reversible control of the preferred helical sense of the polymer backbone (see picture).