Standout Papers

Synthetic Molecular Motors and Mechanical Machines 2003 2026 2010 2018 2.3k
  1. Synthetic Molecular Motors and Mechanical Machines (2006)
    Euan R. Kay, David A. Leigh et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  2. Artificial Molecular Machines (2015)
    Sündüs Erbaş-Çakmak, David A. Leigh et al. Chemical Reviews
  3. Unidirectional rotation in a mechanically interlocked molecular rotor (2003)
    David A. Leigh, Jenny K. Y. Wong et al. Nature
  4. Artificial molecular motors (2017)
    Salma Kassem, Thomas Van Leeuwen et al. Chemical Society Reviews
  5. Macroscopic transport by synthetic molecular machines (2005)
    José Berná, David A. Leigh et al. Nature Materials
  6. Strategies and Tactics for the Metal‐Directed Synthesis of Rotaxanes, Knots, Catenanes, and Higher Order Links (2011)
    Jonathon E. Beves, Barry A. Blight et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  7. Sequence-Specific Peptide Synthesis by an Artificial Small-Molecule Machine (2013)
    Bartosz Lewandowski, Guillaume De Bo et al. Science
  8. Synthetische molekulare Motoren und mechanische Maschinen (2006)
    Euan R. Kay, David A. Leigh et al. Angewandte Chemie
  9. Photoinduction of Fast, Reversible Translational Motion in a Hydrogen-Bonded Molecular Shuttle (2001)
    Albert M. Brouwer, Céline Frochot et al. Science
  10. Artificial switchable catalysts (2015)
    Víctor Blanco, David A. Leigh et al. Chemical Society Reviews
  11. Active metal template synthesis of rotaxanes, catenanes and molecular shuttles (2009)
    James D. Crowley, Stephen M. Goldup et al. Chemical Society Reviews
  12. A molecular information ratchet (2007)
    Chin‐Fa Lee, Euan R. Kay et al. Nature
  13. Catenanes: Fifty Years of Molecular Links (2015)
    Guzmán Gil‐Ramírez, David A. Leigh et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  14. A Reversible Synthetic Rotary Molecular Motor (2004)
    Euan R. Kay, David A. Leigh et al. Science
  15. An autonomous chemically fuelled small-molecule motor (2016)
    Miriam R. Wilson, Jordi Solà et al. Nature
  16. Rotary and linear molecular motors driven by pulses of a chemical fuel (2017)
    Sündüs Erbaş-Çakmak, Stephen D. P. Fielden et al. Science
  17. Braiding a molecular knot with eight crossings (2017)
    Jonathan J. Danon, Anneke Krüger et al. Science
  18. A catalysis-driven artificial molecular pump (2021)
    Shuntaro Amano, Stephen D. P. Fielden et al. Nature
  19. Molecular Ratchets and Kinetic Asymmetry: Giving Chemistry Direction (2024)
    Stefan Borsley, David A. Leigh et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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An autonomous chemically fuelled small-molecule motor
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A Reversible Synthetic Rotary Molecular Motor
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Yoshihisa Inoue 11801 4416 7294 8095 523 21.2k
Stefan Matile 7260 8114 5058 5863 391 19.7k
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