Molecular recognition switchable

A knowledge and understanding on the nature of the helix switching may be helpful in designing PM-transition capability and characteristics in diverse screw-sense inversion related applications, such as chiroptical switches and memory, switchable chiral separation columns, molecular recognition and molecular motor applications. 

Shinkai, S. (2001) Switchable molecular receptors and recognition processes from photoresponsive crown ethers to allosteric sugar sensing systems, in Feringa, B.L. (ed.), Molecular Switches, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, pp. 281-307. 

Switchable Molecular Receptors and Recognition Processes From Photoresponsive Crown Ethers to Allosteric Sugar Sensing Systems... 

When one of the two macrocycles carries two different recognition sites, then the opportunity exists to control the dynamic processes in these switchable [2]catenanes in a manner reminiscent of the controllable molecular shuttles (Figure 29) [30-34, 41], In essence, the requirement for being able to switch between state 0 and state 1 in such a [2]catenane is that the symmetric macrocyclic component resides preferentially around one of the two different recognition sites incorporated within the non-... 

Using the same recognition motif, Coutrot et al. synthesized a pH-switchable dimannosyl[c2]daisy chain molecular... 

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