Complexation of carbon nanorings with fullerenes: Supramolecular dynamics and structural tuning for a fullerene sensor
Complexation of carbon nanorings with fullerenes: Supramolecular dynamics and structural tuning for a fullerene sensor
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200352033
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发表时间:
2003-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Oda, M
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作者:
Kawase, T;Tanaka, K;Oda, M
Recently we have found that a carbon nanoring 1, cyclic [6] paraphenyleneacetylene ([6] CPPA), which has a smooth belt-shaped structure with a 1.31 nm diameter, forms stable inclusion complexes with fullerenes (C60 and a methano [60]-fullerene derivative) in solution as well as in the solid state.[1] Although the host molecule is composed of only carbon and hydrogen atoms, the association constants are quite high (> 104).[2] From these results, together with crystallographic analysis, we concluded that the novel noncovalent interaction, namely concave–convex π–π interaction, plays an important role in the complexation.[3] The same interaction should also be important in the formation and properties of multiwalled carbon nanotubes,[4] Bucky onions [5] and “fullerene Peapods”.[6] On the other hand, the molecular structure also reveals that the cavity size of 1 is slightly smaller than that of C60. These findings promoted us to investigate the structural tuning of carbon nanorings for optimizing complexation with fullerenes (C60 and C70).