Fig. 3: Working cycle and potential energy surfaces of a 2-stroke LDRM 1.
From: Impact of solvation on the photoisomerisation dynamics of a photon-only rotary molecular motor
a The working cycle of the motor. b The profiles of the S1 (red) and S0 (blue) potential energy surfaces along the rotation path. The red and blue dots show the positions of the main structures, labelled by conformational labels and accompanied by 3D geometries. The positions of conical intersections (CI) are shown by hourglass symbols. The curved greyscale arrows show the sequence of transformations during the working cycle. The straight upward magenta arrows show the photoexcitation events. The 3D structures shown in the figure were plotted using the data from ref. 39.
