Massimiliano Curcio

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Thanks again for the engagement! :)

p.s.: I take advantage of this post to tell you as a former coordination chemist that I really enjoyed your study on the 21 e- Co species!

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photoisomerisation (i.e. no thermal equilibrium) and form diastereomeric intermediates upon substrate coordination.
In the end it all comes down to finding diastereomeric intermediates with markedly different photophysical parameters (easier said than done), but in theory it could work.

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Hi Satoshi, thanks for your interest in our work!

Incorporating chiral diazene photoswitches/motors in ligand systems is definitely one of our future goals.

Ideally, what I see as a viabile option would be having photo-axially chiral catalysts that can interconvert just through

Thank you Larissa!! 😊

Fully Made in Italy 🇮🇹 @unibo.it by a terrific team combining expertise in synthesis (Nicoli, Borghi, Curcio), spectroscopy (Taticchi, Silvi, Credi, Baroncini) and simulations (Lorini, Aleotti, Garavelli, Muccioli)

#molecularmachines #photomotors
#backandforth

Wavelength-steered directional rotation in an autonomous light-driven molecular motor - Nature Chemistry The rational design of autonomous light-powered molecular motors remains a formidable challenge in nanoscience. Now, a photochemically driven diazene-based rotary motor has been shown to rotate around...

There's a new motor in town! 🏎️ 🔬

Out in @natchem.nature.com , our latest study introduces a light-driven diazene molecular rotary motor able not only to achieve directional motion, but also to invert the rotation by varying the colour of the light supplied.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share the award of a Starting Grant within the Italian Fund for Science scheme 🎉

As the Italian congener of the ERC-StG, this generous grant (>1 M€) will allow us @unibo.it to develop and implement light-driven molecular motors in complex matrices and biorelevant assemblies ⚗️🏎️🔬⚙️

Congratulations Larissa!! Best wishes to the newest member of the group 🥰

After #Rotaxane and #Catenane, the first example of mechanically interlocked #Pretzelane! 🥨🔗🥨

From @apoethig.bsky.social,‬ [2]rotaxanes with enhanced reactivity (@jacs.acspublications.org).

These rotaxanes were shown to deprotect faster compared to non-interlocked structures due to conformational preorganisation.

🔗 CSD Entry XAJJEC: dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc...

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📢📢 ESOR2025 – 20th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity 🧪⌬

9-12 September 2025 - Padova - Italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹

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Meet our Keynote speakers (2/2)

Early Bird deadline: 18 June 2025

Today's Journal Club paper

~To be or not to be (photoactive)~

Dynamic covalent networks driven away from equilibrium by light, with photoeffected reactions towing photoinert ones💡⚖️⚗️

Congrats @jakeylg.bsky.social and @jiarongwu.bsky.social 🎉

Looking forward to reading more on your cool science!🌟

Thanks Dave!

Autonomous Artificial Molecular Motors and Pumps Autonomous energy consumption is the only way to introduce molecular motors into more sophisticated, larger systems, capable of life-like behavior. We reviewed a selection of the most recent advances...

Excellent recent mini-review on autonomous molecular motors & pumps by the Corra group chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @masscurcio.bsky.social