Publications by Cristian Pezzato

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A major goal in the design of synthetic molecular machines is the creation of pumps that can use the input of energy to transport material from a reservoir at low chemical potential to a different reservoir at higher chemical potential, thereby forming and ...

Metastable-state photoacids (mPAHs) are chemical species whose photo-activated state is long-lived enough to allow for proton diffusion. Liao's photoacid (1) represents the archetype of mPAHs, and is being widely used on account of its unique capability to ...

Artificial molecular machines (AMMs) built from mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) can use energy ratchets to control the unidirectional motion of their component parts. These energy ratchets are operated by the alteration of kinetic barriers and th ...

Macroscopic electric motors continue to have a large impact on almost every aspect of modern society. Consequently, the effort towards developing molecular motors(1-3) that can be driven by electricity could not be more timely. Here we describe an electric ...

The reversible isomerism of indolinospirobenzopyrans is perhaps among the most studied phenomena in the field of molecular switches. Although they began to gain attention as early as 70 years ago following the seminal work of Hirshberg and Fischer, who wer ...

Control over synthetic DNA-based nanodevices can be achieved with a variety of physical and chemical stimuli. Actuation with light, however, is as advantageous as difficult to implement without modifying DNA strands with photo-switchable groups. Herein, we ...

Merocyanine photoacids are molecular photoswitches that can be used to regulate acid-base reactions reversibly. Despite their growing impact across multiple research areas including materials science and nanotechnology, the effect of temperature on their f ...

Reactions between N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) and the trityl cation, [Ph3C]+, give covalent adducts of type [NHC–CPh3]+ and/or [NHC–C6H5–CPh2]+. EPR spectroscopy, UV-Vis analyses, and trapping experiments imply that adduct formation involves carbene rad ...

Polymers containing PdnL2n complexes as network junctions were obtained by reaction of poly(ethylene glycol)-linked N-donor ligands with Pd2+. The addition of a metastable state photoacid renders the networks light sensitive, and gel–sol transitions can be ...

Correction for 'Light-induced assembly and disassembly of polymers with PdnL2n-type network junctions' by Ru-Jin Li et al., Chem. Sci., 2021, DOI: ; 10.1039/d1sc00127b. ...

A visible light-switchable buffer system based on a protonated merocyanine photoacid is presented. Para -substitution of the indolium side with a methoxy group affords a compound suitable for making hydrolytically stable aqueous buffers whose pH can be tun ...

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Non-equilibrium kinetics and trajectory thermodynamics of synthetic molecular pumps

Thermodynamics and kinetics of protonated merocyanine photoacids in water

A Molecular Dual Pump

An electric molecular motor

Photoacidity of Indolinospirobenzopyrans in Water

Controlling DNA nanodevices with light-switchable buffers

The effect of temperature on the photoacidity of merocyanine photoacids in water

SET processes in Lewis acid–base reactions: the tritylation of N-heterocyclic carbenes

Light-induced assembly and disassembly of polymers with PdnL2n-type network junctions

Correction: Light-induced assembly and disassembly of polymers with PdnL2n-type network junctions

Light‐switchable buffers