Rotaxanes ring rotation

Figure 13.2 Schematic representation of the intercomponent motions that can be obtained with simple interlocked molecular architectures ring shuttling in rotaxanes (a), and ring rotation in rotaxanes (b) and catenanes (c).

Figure 20. Pictorial representation of machine-like movements that can be obtained with pseudorotaxanes, rotaxanes, and catenanes (a) dethreading/rethreading of the molecular components in a [2]pseu-dorotaxane, (b) shuttling of the macrocyclic component along the axle in a [2]rotaxane, and (c) ring rotation in a [2]catenane.

Figure 17 Schematic representation of long-range (a) rotation and (b) translation (shuttling) motions of the ring component in rotaxanes.

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