Abstract
As a conceptual expansion of conventional molecular rotors, we conceive to introduce dual polar rotators into a rotor system, which may utilize more variables to regulate the rotor system, and provide a model for understanding and designing more complex molecular machineries. Herein, we report such a crystalline supramolecular rotor with hydroxyl group and water molecule as dual polar rotators. The rotational mechanism is studied, and an interesting phenomenon similar to “spontaneous synchronization of pendulums” is uncovered, i.e., the dielectric relaxation times of the two rotators are not synchronous in the low‐temperature phase, but tend to be similar in the high‐temperature phase. More details are discussed in the article by Du et al. on page 1917–1923.image
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