Institut de Science et Ingénierie Supramoléculiares, Université de Strasbourg, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2017 Sep 4;56(37):11080-11093. doi: 10.1002/anie.201702992. Epub 2017 Jun 20.
To a large extent, the field of "molecular machines" started after several groups were able to prepare, reasonably easily, interlocking ring compounds (named catenanes for compounds consisting of interlocking rings and rotaxanes for rings threaded by molecular filaments or axes). Important families of molecular machines not belonging to the interlocking world were also designed, prepared, and studied but, for most of them, their elaboration was more recent than that of catenanes or rotaxanes. Since the creation of interlocking ring molecules is so important in relation to the molecular machinery area, we will start with this aspect of our work. The second part will naturally be devoted to the dynamic properties of such systems and to the compounds for which motions can be directed in a controlled manner from the outside, that is, molecular machines. We will restrict our discussion to a very limited number of examples which we consider as particularly representative of the field.
在很大程度上，“分子机器”领域始于几个小组能够相当容易地制备互锁环化合物（将由互锁环组成的化合物命名为轮烷，将由分子纤维或轴穿过的环命名为索烃）之后。虽然也设计、制备和研究了不属于互锁世界的重要分子机器家族，但它们中的大多数的研制时间都晚于轮烷或索烃。由于互锁环分子的创建与分子机械领域密切相关，因此我们将从这一方面开始我们的工作。第二部分自然将致力于此类系统的动态特性以及可以从外部以受控方式定向运动的化合物，即分子机器。我们将讨论限制在非常有限的几个例子，我们认为这些例子特别具有代表性。
