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| Recent advances in the imaging and manipulation of single molecules has stimulated much interest in the synthesis of molecules exhibiting unique electronic properties but also very special mechanical properties. Technomimetic molecules are molecules designed to imitate macroscopic objects at the molecular level, also transposing the motions that these objects are able to undergo. In the case of a macroscopic wheelbarrow, pushing the wheelbarrow results in the rotation of the wheel. Following the bottom-up approach we synthesized a molecular wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow is constituted of two wheels (in red) and two legs (in green) connected to a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon platform. The molecule is also equipped with two handles (in blue) for subsequent manipulation with the tip of the microscope. The synthesis of the wheelbarrow will be presented as well as the deposition and manipulation with the tip of a STM.
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Heterocycles and Aromatics
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, 14 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Room 135, Oral
Division of Organic Chemistry |
