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Inside Back Cover: A Small Molecule that Walks Non‐Directionally Along a Track Without External Intervention (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 22/2012)
Author(s) -
Campaña Araceli G.,
Carlone Armando,
Chen Kai,
Dryden David T. F.,
Leigh David A.,
Lewandowska Urszula,
Mullen Kathleen M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201203119
Subject(s) - track (disk drive) , anthracene , cover (algebra) , fluorescence , small molecule , molecule , quenching (fluorescence) , computer science , random walk , chemistry , physics , photochemistry , optics , mathematics , engineering , statistics , biochemistry , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , operating system
Walking along a track is no problem for a small molecule, as described by D. A. Leigh et al. in their Communication on page 5480 ff. The synthetic small molecule walks through successive Michael/retro‐Michael reactions and ultimately performs a task, namely quenching the fluorescence of an anthracene group at one end of the track.