Continued progress toward redox-activated commo-metallacarborane rotary motors

ORGN 220

M. Frederick Hawthorne, mfh@chem.ucla.edu1, Bhaskar M. Ramachandran2, and Robert D. Kennedy, rkennedy@chem.ucla.edu2. (1) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Room 2505 MSB, Los Angeles, CA 90095, (2) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univerisity of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, 90095-1569
Recent progress in the development of a rotary molecular motor based upon the reversible, one-electron redox reactions of [commo-(η5-7,8-C2B9H11)2Ni]n species containing formal Ni(III), n = -1, and Ni(IV), n = 0, will be presented.

 

Molecular Rotors: Ethane, Gyroscopes, Arrays, and Beyond
8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, 29 August 2005 Washington DC Convention Center -- Ballroom B, Oral

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 230th ACS National Meeting, in Washington, DC, Aug 28-Sept 1, 2005