Development of Light-responsible Molecular Rotor based on Ligand Exchange

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20850010
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Functional materials chemistry
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	UBE Hitoshi The University of Tokyo, 大学院・理学系研究科, 助教 (00512138)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2009
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,276,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,520,000、Indirect Cost: ¥756,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000) Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,716,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,320,000、Indirect Cost: ¥396,000)
Keywords	錯体化学 / 光化学 / 配位子交換 / トリプチセン / 分子機械
Research Abstract	Towards development of light-responsible metal complex molecular machinery, rotors having azatriptycenes, which incorporate biding sites into triptycene framework, were designed. Relative rotation of two azatriptycene moieties was controlled by addition of metal ions. This shows that the azatriptycene rotors would be applicable to light-responsible molecular rotors to choose proper metal ions.