Open AccessApplication of Structural Principles to the Design of Triptycene-Based Molecular Gears with Parallel Axes
Author(s) -
Derik K. Frantz,
Kim K. Baldridge,
Jay S. Siegel
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2009.201
Subject(s) - triptycene , bevel gear , bent molecular geometry , orientation (vector space) , rotation (mathematics) , construct (python library) , computer science , mechanical engineering , engineering , nanotechnology , materials science , geometry , structural engineering , mathematics , programming language , artificial intelligence
This perspective discusses the important aspects of the design of molecular gear systems based on triptycene. Molecular systems are categorized into three classes according to the orientation of the gear axes: i) bent (bevel gears), ii) linear, and ii) parallel (spur gears). To date, no examples of molecular gears in which the axes of rotation lie in parallel have been reported; correspondingly, the bulk of this report focuses on the factors one must evaluate to construct such systems