Molecular Ratchets and Kinetic Asymmetry: Giving Chemistry Direction
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
63(23)
Опубликована: Апрель 3, 2024
Abstract
Over
the
last
two
decades
ratchet
mechanisms
have
transformed
understanding
and
design
of
stochastic
molecular
systems—biological,
chemical
physical—in
a
move
away
from
mechanical
macroscopic
analogies
that
dominated
thinking
regarding
dynamics
in
1990s
early
2000s
(e.g.
pistons,
springs,
etc),
to
more
scale‐relevant
concepts
underpin
out‐of‐equilibrium
research
sciences
today.
Ratcheting
has
established
nanotechnology
as
frontier
for
energy
transduction
metabolism,
enabled
reverse
engineering
biomolecular
machinery,
delivering
insights
into
how
molecules
‘walk’
track‐based
synthesisers
operate,
acceleration
reactions
enables
be
transduced
by
catalysts
(both
motor
proteins
synthetic
catalysts),
dynamic
systems
can
driven
equilibrium
through
catalysis.
The
recognition
biology,
their
invention
systems,
is
proving
significant
areas
diverse
supramolecular
chemistry,
covalent
DNA
nanotechnology,
polymer
materials
science,
heterogeneous
catalysis,
endergonic
synthesis,
origin
life,
many
other
branches
science.
Put
simply,
give
chemistry
direction.
Kinetic
asymmetry,
key
feature
ratcheting,
counterpart
structural
asymmetry
(i.e.
chirality).
Given
ubiquity
processes
significance
behaviour
function
it
surely
just
fundamentally
important.
This
Review
charts
recognition,
development
ratchets,
focussing
particularly
on
role
which
they
were
originally
envisaged
elements
machinery.
Different
kinetically
asymmetric
are
compared,
consequences
discussed.
These
archetypal
examples
demonstrate
inexorably
equilibrium,
rather
than
relax
towards
it.
Язык: Английский
Wiring proton gradients for energy conversion
Chemical Science,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024
Spiropyran/merocyanine
molecular
switches
can
generate
metastable
proton
gradients
of
four
pH
units,
enabling
efficient
photoenergy
harvesting
and
conversion.
Язык: Английский
Molecular Ratchets and Kinetic Asymmetry: Giving Chemistry Direction
Angewandte Chemie,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
136(23)
Опубликована: Апрель 3, 2024
Abstract
Over
the
last
two
decades
ratchet
mechanisms
have
transformed
understanding
and
design
of
stochastic
molecular
systems—biological,
chemical
physical—in
a
move
away
from
mechanical
macroscopic
analogies
that
dominated
thinking
regarding
dynamics
in
1990s
early
2000s
(e.g.
pistons,
springs,
etc),
to
more
scale‐relevant
concepts
underpin
out‐of‐equilibrium
research
sciences
today.
Ratcheting
has
established
nanotechnology
as
frontier
for
energy
transduction
metabolism,
enabled
reverse
engineering
biomolecular
machinery,
delivering
insights
into
how
molecules
‘walk’
track‐based
synthesisers
operate,
acceleration
reactions
enables
be
transduced
by
catalysts
(both
motor
proteins
synthetic
catalysts),
dynamic
systems
can
driven
equilibrium
through
catalysis.
The
recognition
biology,
their
invention
systems,
is
proving
significant
areas
diverse
supramolecular
chemistry,
covalent
DNA
nanotechnology,
polymer
materials
science,
heterogeneous
catalysis,
endergonic
synthesis,
origin
life,
many
other
branches
science.
Put
simply,
give
chemistry
direction.
Kinetic
asymmetry,
key
feature
ratcheting,
counterpart
structural
asymmetry
(i.e.
chirality).
Given
ubiquity
processes
significance
behaviour
function
it
surely
just
fundamentally
important.
This
Review
charts
recognition,
development
ratchets,
focussing
particularly
on
role
which
they
were
originally
envisaged
elements
machinery.
Different
kinetically
asymmetric
are
compared,
consequences
discussed.
These
archetypal
examples
demonstrate
inexorably
equilibrium,
rather
than
relax
towards
it.
Язык: Английский