The importance of the rotor in hydrazone-based molecular switches

• Xin Su,
• Timo Lessing and
• Ivan Aprahamian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 872–876, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.98

• isomerization; hydrazone; molecular switches; pH activation; structure–property analysis; Findings Nature is full of elegant examples of perfectly designed biological motors and machines [1] that perform delicate and precise tasks. Primitive as they may be, numerous artificial molecular machines [2][3][4][5][6