One of the major challenges in the field of photoswitches is to move away from the harmful UV-light towards the visible light regime. For applications in biology and material sciences, the use of UV-light is undesirable as it is often damaging and has typically low penetration depths. For these reasons, our group has developed several successful approaches to red-shift the excitation wavelength of molecular rotary motors. Most recently, studies that are aimed at extension of the π system have been conducted. This strategy has proven to be successful and several novel designs of molecular motors powered by visible light are shown.

Visible light driven molecular rotary motors

254th National Meeting (2017)

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