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. 2008 Sep 14:(34):3980-2.
doi: 10.1039/b809014a. Epub 2008 Jul 17.

The foundation of a light driven molecular muscle based on stilbene and alpha-cyclodextrin

Ryan E Dawson  1 , Stephen F Lincoln, Christopher J Easton
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The foundation of a light driven molecular muscle based on stilbene and alpha-cyclodextrin

Ryan E Dawson et al. Chem Commun (Camb). .

Abstract

The rotaxane 3(E,E) serves as the basis of a light driven molecular muscle, where reversible photoisomerisation of the stilbene units causes the cyclodextrins to move off and on the stilbene units, contracting and extending the distance between the blocking groups.

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