Application of semiempirical electronic structure theory to compute the force generated by a single surface-mounted switchable rotaxane

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• 作者：Karl Sohlberg ; Gloria Bazargan ; Joseph P. Angelo…
• 关键词：Molecular machine ; Rotaxane ; Semiempirical ; Theory
• 刊名：Journal of Molecular Modeling
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：23
• 期：1
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Computer Applications in Chemistry; Molecular Medicine; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：0948-5023
• 卷排序：23

文摘

Herein we report a study of the switchable [3]rotaxane reported by Huang et al. (Appl Phys Lett 85(22):5391–5393, 1) that can be mounted to a surface to form a nanomechanical, linear, molecular motor. We demonstrate the application of semiempirical electronic structure theory to predict the average and instantaneous force generated by redox-induced ring shuttling. Detailed analysis of the geometric and electronic structure of the system reveals technical considerations essential to success of the approach. The force is found to be in the 100–200 pN range, consistent with published experimental estimates.