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 ⚗️🏎️🔬⚙️

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... #FeaturedStructureFriday

📢📢 ESOR2025 – 20th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity 🧪⌬ 9-12 September 2025 - Padova - Italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹 www.esor2025.com 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!🌟

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