Driving Feringa Motors with Visible Light by Intermolecular Singlet Energy Transfer from a Commercial [Ru(bpy)<sub>3</sub>]<sup>2+</sup> Photosensitizer
We herein report that a commercialized photosensitizer, Ru(bpy)<sub>3</sub>Cl<sub>2</sub>, can be successfully employed to "uphill" drive the rotation of Feringa motors via a singlet rather than an intuitive triplet intermolecular energy transfer mechanism, offering new insights into the sensitization strategy to power Feringa motors with more biocompatible light sources.
Authors
- Cheng Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2193-3670)
- G. R. Liao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6207-7199)
- Chen Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3579-6980)
- Li Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2327-435X)
- Quan Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8386-4087)
- Bin Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2268-3653)
- Yanling Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2443-1934)
- Ziwei Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-6761)
Institutions
- Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Ministry of Education (IR)
- FZU ‒ Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CZ)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Hubei University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Organic Letters
- Published
- 2025-03-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c00490
- Primary Topic
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Technology Foundation for Selected Overseas Scholar, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security
- State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources