Understanding rotary motion in crystalline solids: Going beyond single molecular rotor systems

ORGN 99

Stephanie L. Gould, gouldsl@chem.ucla.edu, Richard B. Rodriguez, and Miguel Garcia-Garibay. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
The development of crystalline molecular rotors has lead to the expansion of this design to a related di-rotor structure to probe rotary motion in the crystalline state when two rotors are covalently bonded. A crystalline structure with two central phenylene moieties connected with a trityl derivative stator was engineered. Several different di-rotors with varying substituents on the connecting stator were synthesized to improve solubility and crystallinity. This paper will discus the synthesis and characterization of these new molecular rotors.

 

Process R&D, Physical Organic Chemistry, Heterocycles, Aromatics, Metal-Mediated Reactions
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Sunday, March 25, 2007 Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Riverside Center, Poster

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007