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Exercising Demons: Synthetic Molecular Motors and Machines<br />

Dave Leigh<br />

School of Chemistry, University of E<strong>di</strong>nburgh, The King’s Buil<strong>di</strong>ngs, West Mains Road,<br />

E<strong>di</strong>nburgh EH9 3JJ, UK<br />

David.Leigh@ed.ac.uk; http//www.catenane.net or www.rotaxane.net<br />

An exciting contemporary area of chemistry is making molecules with moving parts, with the<br />

goal that they can function as nanoscopic machines capable of performing physical tasks. To do<br />

so for any molecular machine more sophisticated than a simple switch requires the introduction<br />

of ratchet principles into synthetic molecular structures. We will <strong>di</strong>scuss some of the latest<br />

developments from our group in this area, inclu<strong>di</strong>ng the experimental realisation of both energy<br />

ratchets and information ratchets. [1]<br />

[1] For some recent papers from the Leigh group see: Nature, 424, 174-179 (2003); Science,<br />

299, 531 (2003); Science, 306, 1532-1537 (2004); Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 102, 13378-13382<br />

(2005); Nature Mater, 4, 704-710 (2005); Angew Chem Int Ed, 44, 3062-3067 (2005); Angew<br />

Chem Int Ed, 44, 4557-4564 (2005); J Am Chem Soc, 127, 12612-12619 (2005); Proc Natl<br />

Acad Sci USA, 103, 17650-17654 (2006); Nature, 440, 286-287 (2006); J Am Chem Soc, 128,<br />

526-532 (2006); J Am Chem Soc, 128, 1784-1785 (2006); J Am Chem Soc, 128, 2186-2187<br />

(2006); J Am Chem Soc, 128, 4058-4073 (2006); Angew Chem Int Ed, 45, 77-83 (2006); Angew<br />

Chem Int Ed, 45, 1385-1390 (2006); J Am Chem Soc, 129, 476-477 (<strong>2007</strong>); Angew Chem Int<br />

Ed, 46, 72-191 (<strong>2007</strong>); Nature, 445, 523-527 (<strong>2007</strong>).<br />

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