Tetrathiafulvalene – a redox-switchable building block to control motion in mechanically interlocked molecules

• Hendrik V. Schröder and
• Christoph A. Schalley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2163–2185, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.190

• -decorated TTF-rotaxanes was achieved by Gao and co-workers [95]. They deposited a thin-film of bistable donor–acceptor rotaxanes on an indium tin oxide (ITO)-coated substrate. A clean electrochemical switching on the substrate was observed with current–voltage curves showing a clear memory effect. The

Dynamic behavior of rearranging carbocations – implications for terpene biosynthesis

• Stephanie R. Hare and
• Dean J. Tantillo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 377–390, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.41

• magnitude varied with leaving group identity) was ascribed to a “memory effect”. Put simply, product ratios were skewed from what would be expected by simply comparing activation barriers, because the reacting molecule “remembers” the conformation from which it came; this is a hallmark of dynamic matching

• . Additionally, the memory effect can be decreased by “leakage” when one conformation of the common intermediate rapidly converts to the other conformation (essentially the equilibration expected for a reaction not displaying non-statistical dynamic effects). Ghigo et al. set out to explore the memory effect

Competition between local disordering and global ordering fields in nematic liquid crystals

• Matej Cvetko,
• Milan Ambrožič and
• Samo Kralj

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 2, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.2

• disordered regime. Memory effects are apparent only in the latter case, i.e. for B < Bc. PACS numbers: 47.51.+a, 47.54.-r, 07.05.Tp, 61.30.-v Keywords: disorder; Imry-Ma theorem; liquid crystals; memory effect; orientational order; Introduction For years there has been a strong interest in the phase and