Abstract

SALCEDO, Roberto. The advantages of being weak: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016. Educ. quím [online]. 2017, vol.28, n.1, pp.59-61. ISSN 0187-893X.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eq.2016.11.002.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa ‘for the design and synthesis of molecular machines’. To understand molecular machines it is important to know about supramolecular chemistry, that was developed by Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen, also Nobel Prize winners in 1987. For molecular machines, the main issue is the bond between molecules that is very weak. In this paper, a brief description of the molecular machines is presented.

Keywords : Supramolecular chemistry; Catenanes; Rotaxanes; Molecular machines.

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