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SUBMITTER: Biagini C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6900173 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biagini Chiara C Fielden Stephen D P SDP Leigh David A DA Schaufelberger Fredrik F Di Stefano Stefano S Thomas Dean D
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20190621 29
We report on catalysis by a fuel-induced transient state of a synthetic molecular machine. A [2]rotaxane molecular shuttle containing secondary ammonium/amine and thiourea stations is converted between catalytically inactive and active states by pulses of a chemical fuel (trichloroacetic acid), which is itself decomposed by the machine and/or the presence of additional base. The ON-state of the rotaxane catalyzes the reduction of a nitrostyrene by transfer hydrogenation. By varying the amount of ...[more]