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NATURE CHEMISTRY
卷 7, 期 11, 页码 890-896出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.2362
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- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO-CW)
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- NanoNextNL of the Government of the Netherlands
- European Research Council (ERC) [227897]
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Science [024.001.035]
Control of the direction of motion is an essential feature of biological rotary motors and results from the intrinsic chirality of the amino acids from which the motors are made. In synthetic autonomous light-driven rotary motors, point chirality is transferred to helical chirality, and this governs their unidirectional rotation. However, achieving directional rotary motion in an achiral molecular system in an autonomous fashion remains a fundamental challenge. Here, we report an achiral molecular motor in which the presence of a pseudo-asymmetric carbon atom proved to be sufficient for exclusive autonomous disrotary motion of two appended rotor moieties. Isomerization around the two double bonds enables both rotors to move in the same direction with respect to their surroundings-like wheels on an axle-demonstrating that autonomous unidirectional rotary motion can be achieved in a symmetric system.
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