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

• and operation of the electro- and photochemically switchable rotaxane 18 which acts as potential memory device. (a) The redox-switchable rotaxane 19 with a donor–acceptor pair which is stable in five different switching states. (b) Cyclic voltammogram showing the transitions between the five oxidation

A switchable [2]rotaxane with two active alkenyl groups

• Xiu-Li Zheng,
• Rong-Rong Tao,
• Rui-Rui Gu,
• Wen-Zhi Wang and
• Da-Hui Qu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2074–2081, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.181

• polymers. Keywords: alkenyl bond; functional crown ether; stimuli-responsiveness; switchable rotaxane; Introduction Along with the development of supramolecular chemistry, much attention has been paid to the design and synthesis of novel and complicated mechanical interlocked molecules (MIMs) [1][2][3][4