List of works by Jean-Pierre Sauvage

2D Supramolecular Assemblies of Benzene-1,3,5-triyl-tribenzoic Acid: Temperature-Induced Phase Transformations and Hierarchical Organization with Macrocyclic Molecules

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

A New Family of Biisoquinoline Chelates

A Ru(terpy)(phen)-incorporating ring and its light-induced geometrical changes

scientific article published on 24 May 2005

A Study on Delocalization of MLCT Excited States by Rigid Bridging Ligands in Homometallic Dinuclear Complexes of Ruthenium(II)

scholarly article by Leif Hammarström et al published November 1997 in Journal of Physical Chemistry A

A Switchable Hybrid [2]-Catenane Based on Transition Metal Complexation and π-Electron Donor−Acceptor Interactions

scientific article published on 01 April 1996

A Synthetic Molecular Trefoil Knot

scholarly article by Christiane O. Dietrich-Buchecker & Jean-Pierre Sauvage published February 1989 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

A Triphenylamine/Bis(terpyridine)IrIII Dyad for the Assembly of Charge-Separation Constructs with Improved Performances

A [2]catenane constructed around a Ru(diimine)(3)(2+) complex used as a template

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

A [2]catenane constructed around a rhodium(III) center used as a template

scientific article published in December 2003

A [3]rotaxane with two porphyrinic plates acting as an adaptable receptor

scientific article published on 14 March 2008

A catenane consisting of a large ring threaded through both cyclic units of a handcuff-like compound

A copper-complexed rotaxane in motion: pirouetting of the ring on the millisecond timescale

scientific article published on 23 January 2004

A cyclic [4]rotaxane that behaves as a switchable molecular receptor: formation of a rigid scaffold from a collapsed structure by complexation with copper(I) ions

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

A fast-moving [2]rotaxane whose stoppers are remote from the copper complex core

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

A fast-moving copper-based molecular shuttle: synthesis and dynamic properties.

scientific article published in January 2009

A flexible copper(I)-complexed [4]rotaxane containing two face-to-face porphyrinic plates that behaves as a distensible receptor

scientific article published on 04 June 2012

A functionalized noncovalent macrocyclic multiporphyrin assembly from a dizinc(II) bis-porphyrin receptor and a free-base dipyridylporphyrin

scientific article published in December 2003

A light-stimulated molecular switch driven by radical-radical interactions in water

scientific article published on 29 June 2011

A liquid-crystalline [2]catenane and its copper(I) complex

scientific article published in January 2007

A molecular light switch for DNA: Ru(bpy)2(dppz)2+

article by Alan E. Friedman et al published June 1990 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

A pseudo-rotaxane based on an iridium(iii)–copper(i) dyad

scholarly article by Etienne Baranoff et al published 2004 in New Journal of Chemistry

A rapidly shuttling copper-complexed [2]rotaxane with three different chelating groups in its axis

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

A transition metal ion assembled catenane bearing linearly-arranged donor and acceptor porphyrins

A triad based on an iridium(III) bisterpyridine complex leading to a charge-separated state with a 120-micros lifetime at room temperature

scholarly article by Lucia Flamigni et al published 25 August 2006 in Chemistry—A European Journal

Absorption and emission properties of a 2-catenand, its protonated forms, and its complexes with Li+, Cu+, Ag+, Co2+, Ni2+, Zn2+, Pd2+ and Cd2+: tuning of the luminescence over the whole visible spectral region

Absorption and luminescence properties of 1, 10-phenanthroline, 2, 9-diphenyl-1, 10-phenanthroline, 2,9-dianisyl-1, 10-phenanthroline and their protonated forms in dichloromethane solution

Adjustable receptor based on a [3]rotaxane whose two threaded rings are rigidly attached to two porphyrinic plates: synthesis and complexation studies

scientific article

Bigger, better, faster: molecular shuttles with sterically non-hindering biisoquinoline chelates

article published in 2011

Bimetallic Iridium(III) Complexes Consisting of Ir(ppy)2Units (ppy = 2-Phenylpyridine) and Two Laterally Connected N∧N Chelates as Bridge: Synthesis, Separation, and Photophysical Properties

scientific article published on 17 July 2007

ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of New Copper(I)-Complexed Rotaxanes via Click Chemistry.

scientific article published in 2008

Chemical topology: complex molecular knots, links, and entanglements

scientific article published on 21 June 2011

Chemically induced contraction and stretching of a linear rotaxane dimer.

scientific article published in March 2002

Chiral spiro Cu(I) complexes. Supramolecular stereocontrol and isomerisation dynamics by the use of TRISPHAT anions

scientific article published on 20 January 2006

Combining Topological and Steric Constraints for the Preparation of Heteroleptic Copper(I) Complexes

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Complexes Containing 2,9-Bis(p-biphenylyl)-1,10-phenanthroline Units Incorporated into a 56-Membered Ring. Synthesis, Electrochemistry, and Photophysical Properties

article by Jean-Marc Kern et al published November 1997 in Inorganic Chemistry

Computational, structural, and mechanistic analysis of the electrochemically driven pirouetting motion of a copper rotaxane

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Contractile and extensible molecular figures-of-eight.

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Coordination chemistry-assembled multicomponent systems built from a gable-like bis-porphyrin: synthesis and photophysical properties.

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Coordination chemistry-assembled porphyrinic catenanes

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Copper(I)- or Iron(II)-Templated Synthesis of Molecular Knots Containing Two Tetrahedral or Octahedral Coordination Sites

scholarly article by Gwénaël Rapenne et al published February 1999 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Copper(I)-assembled [3]rotaxane whose two rings act as flapping wings

scientific article published on 10 January 2012

Copper(I)-directed formation of a cyclic pseudorotaxane tetramer and its trimeric homologue

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Copper(I)-templated synthesis of [2]catenates bearing pendant porphyrins

Copper-complexed catenanes and rotaxanes in motion: 15 years of molecular machines.

scientific article published on 24 August 2010

Cyclic [2]pseudorotaxane tetramers consisting of two rigid rods threaded through two bis-macrocycles: copper(I)-templated synthesis and X-ray structure studies

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Cyclic [4]Rotaxanes Containing Two Parallel Porphyrinic Plates: Toward Switchable Molecular Receptors and Compressors

scientific article (publication date: 18 February 2014)

Cyclometalated Ru(II) complexes with improved octahedral geometry: synthesis and photophysical properties

scientific article published in January 2010

Design and synthesis of porphyrin-containing catenanes and rotaxanes

scientific article

Dicopper(I) trefoil knots and related unknotted molecular systems: influence of ring size and structural factors on their synthesis and electrochemical and excited-state properties

scientific article published in 1993

Dinuclear Iridium(III) Complexes Consisting of Back-to-Back tpy−(ph)n−tpy Bridging Ligands (n= 0, 1, or 2) and Terminal Cyclometallating Tridentate N−C−N Ligands

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Disulfide- and thiol-incorporating copper catenanes: synthesis, deposition onto gold, and surface studies

scientific article published in May 2002

Donor–acceptor molecular figures-of-eight

scientific article published on 05 October 2011

Dyads containing iridium(III) bis-terpyridine as photoactive center: synthesis and electron transfer study

scientific article

Dynamic topomerization of Cu(I)-complexed pseudorotaxanes

scientific article published on 11 December 2012

Efficient synthesis of a labile copper(I)-rotaxane complex using click chemistry

scientific article published in 2006

Electrochemically Triggered Swinging of a [2]-Catenate

scientific article published on 01 October 1994

Electrochemically and Photochemically Driven Ring Motions in a Disymmetrical Copper [2]-Catenate.

scientific article

Electrochemically driven sequential machines: an implementation of copper rotaxanes

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Energy Transfer in Rigid Ru(II)/Os(II) Dinuclear Complexes with Biscyclometalating Bridging Ligands Containing a Variable Number of Phenylene Units

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Excited-state properties in supramolecular systems. Luminescence and intercomponent interactions in a 3-catenand and some 3-catenates

scientific article published in 1991

Fast electrochemically induced translation of the ring in a copper-complexed [2]rotaxane: the biisoquinoline effect

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Fe(II), Ru(II) and Re(I) complexes of endotopic, sterically non-hindering, U-shaped 8,8'-disubstituted-3,3'-biisoquinoline ligands: syntheses and spectroscopic properties

scientific article

Formation of copper(I)-templated [2]rotaxanes using “click” methodology: influence of the base, the thread and the catalyst

scientific article published in 2011

From Chemical Topology to Molecular Machines (Nobel Lecture).

scientific article

From Photoinduced Charge Separation to Light-driven Molecular Machines

From ruthenium(II) to iridium(III): 15 years of triads based on bis-terpyridine complexes

scientific article published on March 2004

Heteroleptic Copper(I) Pseudorotaxanes Incorporating Macrocyclic Phenanthroline Ligands of Different Sizes

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Highly Efficient Ultrafast Electron Injection from the Singlet MLCT Excited State of Copper(I) Diimine Complexes to TiO2Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 08 November 2012

Interconversion between a vertically oriented transition metal-complexed figure-of-eight and a horizontally disposed one

scientific article published in 2014

Interlocked macrocyclic ligands: a kinetic catenand effect in copper(I) complexes

scientific article published in 1985

Ion-pair-mediated asymmetric synthesis of a configurationally stable mononuclear tris(diimine)-iron(II) complex

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Iridium terpyridine complexes as functional assembling units in arrays for the conversion of light energy

scholarly article by Lucia Flamigni et al published July 2008 in Accounts of Chemical Research

Iron(II)-templated synthesis of [3]rotaxanes by passing two threads through the same ring

scientific article published on 19 December 2007

Knotted Heterodinuclear Complexes

Les Cryptates

scientific article

Light intensity effects on photoinduced charge separation parameters in a molecular triad based on an Iridium(III) bis(terpyridine) unit

scientific article

Light-driven expulsion of the sterically hindering ligand L in tris-diimine ruthenium(II) complexes of the Ru(phen)2(L)2+ family: a pronounced ring effect.

scientific article published on June 2005

Light-driven machine prototypes based on dissociative excited states: photoinduced decoordination and thermal recoordination of a ring in a ruthenium(II)-containing [2]catenane

scientific article published in April 2004

Light-induced geometrical changes in acyclic ruthenium(II) complexes and their ruthena-macrocyclic analogues

scientific article published on 15 November 2007

Long-range electron transfer in porphyrin-containing [2]-rotaxanes: tuning the rate by metal cation coordination

scientific article published in April 2002

Luminescent Iridium(III)-Terpyridine Complexes - Interplay of Ligand Centred and Charge Transfer States

scholarly article by Lucia Flamigni et al published April 2005 in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Macrocycle-Based Liquid Crystals: A Study of Topological Effects on Mesomorphism

Macrocyclic Complexes of [Ru(N-N)2]2+ Units [N-N = 1,10 Phenanthroline or 4-(p-Anisyl)-1,10-Phenanthroline]: Synthesis and Photochemical Expulsion Studies

Metal-organic frameworks incorporating copper-complexed rotaxanes

scientific article

Molecular Composite Knots

scientific article published in 1996

NIR dual luminescence from an extended porphyrin. Spectroscopy, photophysics and theory

scientific article

NIR emission of cyclic [4]rotaxanes containing π-extended porphyrin chromophores

scientific article published on 03 July 2012

NMR Evaluation of the Configurational Stability of Cu(I) Complexes

scientific article published on January 27, 2003

Nature of the lowest energy excited state of a bis-phenanthroline [2]-catenand and its Cu(I), Ag(I) and Co(II) complexes

Near-infrared dual luminescence from an extended zinc porphyrin

scientific article published on 07 December 2011

Passing two strings through the same ring using an octahedral metal center as template: a new synthesis of [3]rotaxanes

scientific article published in May 2009

Photochemical and thermal ligand exchange in a ruthenium(II) complex based on a scorpionate terpyridine ligand

scientific article published in January 2003

Photochemical expulsion of the neutral monodentate ligand L in Ru(terpy*)(diimine)(L)2+: a dramatic effect of the steric properties of the spectator diimine ligand.

scientific article published on December 2004

Photochemical or thermal chelate exchange in the ruthenium coordination sphere of complexes of the Ru(phen)(2)L family (L = diimine or dinitrile ligands).

scientific article published in March 2002

Photoexpulsion of surface-grafted ruthenium complexes and subsequent release of cytotoxic cargos to cancer cells from mesoporous silica nanoparticles

scientific article

Photoinduced Electron and Energy Transfer in Rigidly Bridged Ru(II)-Rh(III) Binuclear Complexes

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Photoinduced Processes in Dyads Made of a Porphyrin Unit and a Ruthenium Complex

Photoinduced Processes in Highly Coupled Multicomponent Arrays Based on a Ruthenium(II)Bis(terpyridine) Complex and Porphyrins

Photoinduced electron transfer in multiporphyrinic interlocked structures: the effect of copper(I) coordination in the central site

scientific article

Photoinduced processes in multicomponent arrays containing transition metal complexes

Photoinduced processes in porphyrin-stoppered [3]-rotaxanes

Preparation of copper(I) pseudo-rotaxanes from bis-phosphine ligands

scientific article published on 21 August 2012

Protonation of free 2,9-bis(p-biphenylyl)-1,10-phenanthrolinesites in a 56-membered macrocycle and in its ReIand CuIcomplexes Absorption spectra, luminescence properties, and excited state interactions

Quantitative formation of [2]catenanes using copper(I) and palladium(II) as templating and assembling centers: the entwining route and the threading approach

scientific article published in May 2003

Quantitative formation of [4]pseudorotaxanes from two rods and two bis-macrocycles incorporating porphyrinic plates between the rings

scientific article published on 26 February 2009

Quantitative formation of a tetraporphyrin [2]catenane via copper and zinc coordination

scientific article published on 17 September 2008

Rigid Rod-Like Dinuclear Ru(II)/Os(II) Terpyridine-Type Complexes. Electrochemical Behavior, Absorption Spectra, Luminescence Properties, and Electronic Energy Transfer through Phenylene Bridges

scientific article published in 1994

Rings-and-String Approach to the Construction of Porphyrin Arrays by Transition-Metal-Directed Threading

scientific article published in 1996

Rotaxanes Incorporating Two Different Coordinating Units in Their Thread: Synthesis and Electrochemically and Photochemically Induced Molecular Motions

scientific article published in 1999

Ruthenium(II) and Osmium(II) Bis(terpyridine) Complexes in Covalently-Linked Multicomponent Systems: Synthesis, Electrochemical Behavior, Absorption Spectra, and Photochemical and Photophysical Properties

scholarly article by Jean Pierre Sauvage et al published June 1994 in Chemical Reviews

Stereochemistry of Molecular Figures-of-Eight

scientific article published on 26 July 2012

Stereoselective synthesis of a topologically chiral molecule: the trefoil knot

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

Sterically non-hindering endocyclic ligands of the bi-isoquinoline family

scientific article

Supramolecular Photochemistry and Photophysics. A [3]-Catenand and its Mononuclear and Homo- and Heterodinuclear [3]-Catenates

scientific article published in 1994

Synthesis and photochemistry of a two-position Ru(terpy)(phen)(L)2+ scorpionate complex

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Synthesis of [5]rotaxanes containing bi- and tridentate coordination sites in the axis

scientific article published on 16 November 2010

Synthesis of a Copper [3]Rotaxane Able To Function as an Electrochemically Driven Oscillatory Machine in Solution, and To Form SAMs on a Metal Surface

scientific article published on October 20, 2003

Synthesis of a [2]catenane around a Ru(diimine)3(2+) scaffold by ring-closing metathesis of olefins

scientific article published in May 2003

Synthesis of a bis-macrocycle containing two back-to-back rigidly connected 1,10-phenanthroline units as a central core and its incorporation in a handcuff-like catenane

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Synthesis of a doubly interlocked [2]-catenane.

scientific article

Synthesis of a metal-free coordinating ring via formation of a cleavable [2]catenane.

scientific article published in November 2013

Synthesis of catenanes and molecular knots by copper(I)-directed formation of the precursors followed by ruthenium(II)-catalysed ring-closing metathesis

scholarly article by Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker et al published May 1999 in Coordination Chemistry Reviews

Synthesis of multi-1,10-phenanthroline ligands with 1,3-phenylene linkers and their lithium complexes

scientific article published in July 2005

Synthesis of new copper(I)-complexed rotaxanes via click chemistry

scientific article published in 2008

Synthesis, X-ray Structure, and Electrochemical and Excited-State Properties of Multicomponent Complexes Made of a [Ru(Tpy)2]2+Unit Covalently Linked to a [2]-Catenate Moiety. Controlling the Energy-Transfer Direction by Changing the Catenate Metal I

scientific article published in 1999

Temperature Independent Ru → Os Electronic Energy Transfer in a Rodlike Dinuclear Complex with a 2.4 nm Intermetal Separation

scientific article published in 1996

Templated synthesis of a rotaxane with a [Ru(diimine)3]2+ core.

scientific article published in September 2003

Templated synthesis of cyclic [4]rotaxanes consisting of two stiff rods threaded through two bis-macrocycles with a large and rigid central plate as spacer

scientific article published in May 2010

Templating and Clipping Coordination Reactions Leading to Heteronuclear Trimetallic Complexes Containing Interlocking Rings

scientific article published on 01 June 1997

The beauty of knots at the molecular level

scientific article published on January 2012

The magic effect of endocyclic but non-sterically hindering biisoquinoline chelates: From fast-moving molecular shuttles to [3]rotaxanes

Three-Component Entanglements Consisting of Three Crescent-Shaped Bidentate Ligands Coordinated to an Octahedral Metal Centre

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Three-Component Noncovalent Assembly Consisting of a Central Tetrakis-4-pyridyl Porphyrin and Two Lateral Gable-Like Bis-Zn Porphyrins

scientific article published on 7 September 2009

Toward mechanical switching of surface-adsorbed [2]catenane by in situ copper complexation

scientific article published on 21 November 2007

Towards artificial muscles at the nanometric level

scientific article

Transition metal complexes as molecular machine prototypes

scientific article published on 8 November 2006

Transition-Metal-Templated Synthesis of Rotaxanes

Transition-Metal-Templated Synthesis of Rotaxanes

Transition-metal-complexed catenanes and rotaxanes: from dynamic systems to functional molecular machines

scientific article published in January 2014

Transition-metal-complexed cyclic [3]- and [4]pseudorotaxanes containing rigid ring-and-filament conjugates: synthesis and solution studies

scientific article published on 25 March 2011

Triplet−Triplet Energy Transfer between Porphyrins Linked via a Ruthenium(II) Bisterpyridine Complex

Ultrafast dynamics of two copper bis-phenanthroline complexes measured by x-ray transient absorption spectroscopy

Unconventional Synthesis of a Cu Rotaxane with a Superacceptor Stopper: Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics and Near-Infrared Luminescence

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Unusual photoinduced electron transfer from a zinc porphyrin to a tetrapyridyl free-base porphyrin in a noncovalent multiporphyrin array

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Use of cleavable coordinating rings as protective groups in the synthesis of a rotaxane with an axis that incorporates more chelating groups than threaded macrocycles

scientific article published on 9 August 2013

Zinc(II)-templated synthesis of a [2]-catenane consisting of a 2,2',6',2' '-terpyridine-incorporating cycle and a 1,10-phenanthroline-containing ring

scientific article published in March 2003

[2]Catenanes built around octahedral transition-metal complexes that contain two intertwined endocyclic but non-sterically hindering tridentate ligands

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