Clutch-stack-driven molecular gears

Phenylene rings of the clutch-stacked triaryltriazine molecular gears rotate 180°, perpendicular to the molecular plane, interacting with phenylene rings of neighboring molecules in a gear-like fashion, resulting in a correlated molecular motion. (Mingoo Jin, et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society. December 7, 2023)
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Original Article: Mingoo Jin, Ryunosuke Kitsu, Natsumi Hammyo, Ayana Sato-Tomita, Motohiro Mizuno, Alexander S. Mikherdov, Mikhail Tsitsvero, Andrey Lyalin, Tetsuya Taketsugu, and Hajime Ito. A Steric-Repulsion-Driven Clutch Stack of Triaryltriazines: Correlated Molecular Rotations and a Thermo-Responsive Gearshift in the Crystalline Solid. Journal of the American Chemical Society. December 7, 2023.
doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c08909