Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100848
Title: Working mechanism for a redox switchable molecular machine based on cyclodextrin : a free energy profile approach
Authors: Zhang, Qiong
Tu, Yaoquan
Tian, He
Zhao, Yanli
Stoddart, J. Fraser
Ågren, Hans
Keywords: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Microelectronics and semiconductor materials::Nanoelectronics and interconnects
Issue Date: 2010
Source: Zhang, Q., Tu, Y., Tian, H., Zhao, Y. L., Stoddart, J. F., & Ågren, H. (2010). Working mechanism for a redox switchable molecular machine based on cyclodextrin : a free energy profile approach. The journal of physical chemistry B, 114(19), 6561-6566.
Series/Report no.: The Journal of physical chemistry B
Abstract: This paper reports the working mechanism for a redox-responsive bistable [2]rotaxane incorporating an R-cyclodextrin (R-CD) ring (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 11294-11296), based on free energy profiles obtained from all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. Employing an umbrella sampling technique, the free energy profiles (potential of mean force, PMF) were calculated for the shuttling motion of the R-CD ring between a tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) recognition site and a triazole (TZ) unit on the dumbbell of the rotaxane for three oxidation states (0, +1, +2) of the TTF unit. These calculated free energy profiles verified the experimentally observed binding preference for each state. Analysis of the free energy components reveals that, for these R-CD-based rotaxanes with charged TTF units, the real driving force for the shuttling in the oxidized states is actually the interactions between water and the rotaxane components, which overwhelms the attractive interactions between the R-CD ring and the charged dumbbell. In this work, we put forward a feasible approach to correctly describe the complexation behavior of CD with charged species, that is, free energy profiles obtained from all-atom molecular dynamics simulation.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100848
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7047
ISSN: 1520-6106
DOI: 10.1021/jp102834k
Schools: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences 
Rights: © 2010 American Chemical Society
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