English: Some modes of motion present in some simple building blocks of artificial molecular machines. a) Rotation around single bonds and in sandwich-like p-metal complexes. b) Bending as a consequence of double-bond isomerization. c) Translational motion of a ring along the dumbbell of a rotaxane. d) Circumrotation motion of rings in a catenane. Based on figure from ChemPhysChem 2016, 17,1780–1793 (image self-made using ChemDraw, inspired from publication, doi:10.1002/cphc.201501155)
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Some modes of motion in molecular machines, based on figure from ChemPhysChem 2016, 17,1780–1793 (image self-made using ChemDraw, inspired from publication, doi:10.1002/cphc.201501155)