Mechanically Interlocked Molecules (MIMs)—Molecular Shuttles, Switches, and Machines (Nobel Lecture)

TY - JOUR

T1 - Mechanically Interlocked Molecules (MIMs)—Molecular Shuttles, Switches, and Machines (Nobel Lecture)

AU - Stoddart, J. Fraser

N1 - Funding Information: [*] Prof. J. F. Stoddart Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-3113 (USA) E-mail: stoddart@northwestern.edu [**] Copyright© The Nobel Foundation 2016. We thank the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, for permission to print this lecture. Funding Information: During the first 25 years of my life I had travelled very little and I yearned to go to North America, with enthusiastic support from my parents and somewhat less so from Norma, who had transferred her allegiance to the Biochemistry Department in the Medical School to begin her postgraduate work in steroid biosynthesis, under the tutelage of George Boyd. For my part, Sir Edmund sprung into action and did not take long to arrange for me to go to Queen≫s University in Kingston, Ontario as a National Research Council of Canada Research Fellow. Here I would join the Chemistry group, headed up by Ken Jones, one of his own postgraduate Funding Information: I wish to put on record my most sincere thanks to the over 400 students, from close on 50 different countries during the past 45 years, who have contributed quite magnificently to the intellectual life as well as the research achievements and impressive productivity coming of laboratories in four universities and one international company, situated in two different countries, namely the United States and the United Kingdom. I acknowledge the constant stimulation and invaluable support in research provided by more than 60 collaborators, some of them colleagues in the five institutions in which I have carried out research and others drawn from research centers of one sort or another, dotted all around the world. I thank all those universities, foundations, research councils, funding agencies and industries who have supported my research enthusiastically and generously—in particular, the Universities of Sheffield and Birmingham in the United Kingdom and at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Northwestern University in the United States, Imperial Chemical Industries, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (and its predecessors), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (and its predecessors) in the United Kingdom, the California Nano-Systems Institute, the International Institute for Nanotechnology, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the American Chemical Society, the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense in the United States, and finally, but by no means least, the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

PY - 2017/9/4

Y1 - 2017/9/4

KW - catenanes

KW - mechanically interlocked molecules

KW - molecular machines

KW - rotaxanes

KW - supramolecular chemistry

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U2 - 10.1002/anie.201703216

DO - 10.1002/anie.201703216

M3 - Review article

C2 - 28815900

AN - SCOPUS:85028379137

VL - 56

SP - 11094

EP - 11125

JO - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

JF - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

SN - 1433-7851

IS - 37

ER -