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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 127, Issue 41, Pages 14208-14222Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja052201e
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To investigate the unidirectional rotation of chiral overcrowded biphenanthrylidenes in more detail, the size of the substituent next to the double bond responsible for the unidirectionality of rotation was varied. The thermal and photochemical isomerization of three sterically overcrowded alkenes is described. The behavior of the biphenanthrylidenes with methyl and ethyl substituents is rather similar, and these compounds undergo a unidirectional 3600 rotation around the central double bond in a four-step sequence involving two photochemical cis-trans isomerizations and two thermal helix inversions. The only difference between these two true molecular motors was a small entropic effect, which causes the ethyl substituted molecular motor to rotate slightly faster. The behavior of the i-propyl substituted compound differs significantly from that of the other two. Although not all different isomers of the i-propyl substituted molecular motor were detected spectroscopically, experimental data led to the conclusion that this compound can also be considered as a molecular motor and is capable of performing a 360 degrees unidirectional rotation. H-1 NMR and X-ray analysis show a meso-like form as an intermediate in the unidirectional rotation, which proves that the thermal helix inversion is a stepwise process.
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