Emissive Nucleosides as Molecular Rotors

Molecular Rotors as Switches

The use of a functional molecular unit acting as a state variable provides an attractive alternative for the next generations of nanoscale electronics. It may help overcome the limits of conventional MOSFETd due to their potential scalability, low-cost, low variability, and highly integratable characteristics as well as the capability to exploit bottom-up self-assembly processes. This bottom-up...

Artificial molecular rotors.

Molecular rotors: Synthesis and evaluation as viscosity sensors.

It has been shown that compounds containing the p-N,N,-dialkylaminobenzylidene cyanoacetate motif can serve as fluorescent non-mechanical viscosity sensors. These compounds, referred to as molecular rotors, belong to a class of fluorescent probes that are known to form twisted intramolecular charge-transfer complexes in the excited state. In this study we present the synthesis and spectroscopic...

Investigation of Nucleosides Molecular Structure

The investigations of nucleoside molecular structures are of fundamental interest for molecular biology. Up to the present the main experimental information about their structure was obtained from the data for the crystals and solutions [1]. But the intermolecular interaction strongly influences on the conformational and tautomeric equilibrium. And their result can not be compared with quantum ...

Dyes with Segmental Mobility: Molecular Rotors

Molecular rotors are fluorescent molecules that are characterized by the ability to form twisted states through the rotation of one segment of the structure with respect to the rest of the molecule. Intramolecular rotation changes the groundstate and excited-state energies, and molecular rotors deexcite from the twisted state either without photon emission or with a different wavelength than fr...