Supramolecular Switches:
The group are developing, with Paul Beer, a range of means of generating interlocked molecular films that are redox and/or analyte responsive.
In some cases these (rotaxane or catenane) films are highly emissive (lanthanide containing - with Stephen Faulkner) or decorated with pendant redox reporters and are designed to exhibit a translational response (molecular shuttling).
Solution And Surface-Confined Chlorine Anion Templated Redox-Active Forrocene Catenanes
Examples: Chem. Comm., 2004, 414-415, Chem. Comm., 2002, 1716-1717, Chem. Comm. 2007, 2234-2236, Langmuir, 2009, 25, 5, 2935-2940, New J. Chem., 2009, 4, 760-768, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2009, 7, 415-424, Chemical Comm. 2010, 46, 54-63, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 11847-11849, Chemical Science, 2012, 3, 1080-1089, Langmuir, 2013, 29, 1475-1482. Chemistry-A European Journal, 2013, 19, 15898-15906, Chem. Comm., 2014, 10.1039/c4cc01138d
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