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Two's company but three's allowed! An entropy-driven tristable molecular shuttle has been developed, where shuttling between two of three stations is brought about through a photochemical isomerization, but a further stable co-conformation is unexpectedly observed simply upon changing the temperature (the picture shows the molecular shuttle in one of the three possible co-conformations). Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http: //www. wiley-vch. de/contents/jc₂002/2003/z52176ₛ. pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.
Bottari et al. (Mon,) studied this question.