Photo- and electro- activation of hydrogen bonded rotaxanes

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1 Introduction. On the way to rotaxane molecular machines.

2 Experimental methods, syntheses and analyses

3 Photoisomerization of rotaxanes based on the fumaramide template. Part 1. Direct excitation into the singlet excited states.

4 Photoisomerization of rotaxanes based on the fumaramide template. Part 2. Excitation using triplet sensitizers.

5 Photoisomerization of rotaxanes containing the coumaric amide chromophore.

6 A multi-electron switchable molecular shuttle based on a naphthalene-bisimide rotaxane.

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