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Gwénaël Rapenne
Researcher at Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Publications - 107
Citations - 2756
Gwénaël Rapenne is an academic researcher from Nara Institute of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Molecular machine & Ruthenium. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 103 publications receiving 2476 citations. Previous affiliations of Gwénaël Rapenne include Centre national de la recherche scientifique & University of Toulouse.
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Controlled clockwise and anticlockwise rotational switching of a molecular motor
U.G.E. Perera,Francisco Ample,Heath Kersell,Yuan Zhang,Guillaume Vives,Jorge Echeverría,Maricarmen Grisolia,Gwénaël Rapenne,Christian Joachim,Saw-Wai Hla +9 more
TL;DR: It is shown that a stand-alone molecular motor adsorbed on a gold surface can be made to rotate in a clockwise or anticlockwise direction by selective inelastic electron tunnelling through different subunits of the motor.
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Rolling a single molecular wheel at the atomic scale
Leonhard Grill,Karl-Heinz Rieder,Francesca Moresco,Gwénaël Rapenne,Sladjana Stojkovic,Xavier Bouju,Christian Joachim +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown how the rolling of a single molecule equipped with two wheels can be induced by the STM tip, and the approach of controlling the intramolecular mechanics provides a path towards the bottom-up assembly of more complex molecular machines.
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Copper(I)- or Iron(II)-Templated Synthesis of Molecular Knots Containing Two Tetrahedral or Octahedral Coordination Sites
TL;DR: In this paper, molecular trefoil knots have been prepared from metal-assembled precursors using the ring closing metathesis (RCM) cyclization methodology and the templating metal is either copper(I) or iron(II) and...
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Efficient synthesis of a molecular knot by copper(I)-induced formation of the precursor followed by ruthenium(II)-catalysed ring closing metathesis
TL;DR: In this paper, a double-stranded helix constructed around two copper(I) centers used as templates and bearing four terminal alkenes, is converted into a trefoil knot in 74% yield by ruthenium(II)-catalysed ring closing methathesis (RCM).
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Simultaneous and coordinated rotational switching of all molecular rotors in a network
Yuan Zhang,Heath Kersell,Roman Stefak,Jorge Echeverría,Violeta Iancu,U.G.E. Perera,Yang Li,Aparna Deshpande,K.-F. Braun,Christian Joachim,Gwénaël Rapenne,Gwénaël Rapenne,Saw-Wai Hla,Saw-Wai Hla +13 more
TL;DR: It is shown that a two-dimensional array of dipolar molecular rotors can undergo simultaneous rotational switching when applying an electric field from the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope.