A wide variety of chiral molecular motors has been developed for the purpose of nanoscale devices. These devices have been able to induce the movement of objects a hundred thousand times their size. However, unidirectional movement under ambient conditions of this new class of nanomotors still has to be proven.Here we present a novel type of 'meso' molecular motors that are designed to function as a unidirectional molecular walker. These 3rd generation molecular motors were synthesized and their behavior was investigated. In a theoretical study their rotational behavior was studied and the effect of various substitution patterns investigated. In this presentation a combined theoretical/experimental study will be presented.

Synthesis of a novel "meso" molecular motor and prediction of its rotational behavior by DFT

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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