Towards Synthetic Molecular Muscles: Contraction and Stretching of a Linear Rotaxane Dimer We are grateful to M. Jean-Daniel Sauer and Dr. Roland Graff for high-field NMR experiments, Hélène Nierengarten and Raymond Hubert for mass determinations. M.C.J. thanks the European Commission for a Grant (TMR Contract No. ERBFMBICT972547). We also thank the CNRS for financial support (Programme Physique et Chimie du Vivant)
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1 Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minérale UMR 7513 du CNRS Université Louis Pasteur Faculté de Chimie 4, rue Blaise Pascal 67070 Strasbourg Cedex (France).