Pentadecker Supramolecules with a Lithium Alkoxo Nanobelt Sandwiched between Two Highly Charged Buckybowl Surfaces

Stack it up: Reduction of corannulene with an excess of lithium metal in dimethoxyethane (DME) results in the formation of remarkable multilayered supramolecular aggregates (see picture) having lithium alkoxo nanobelts encapsulated between two tetrareduced corannulene bowls, [C20H104−/Li6(OR)6Li6/C2...

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Published inAngewandte Chemie (International ed.) Vol. 51; no. 49; pp. 12194 - 12198
Main Authors Zabula, Alexander V., Spisak, Sarah N., Filatov, Alexander S., Petrukhina, Marina A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 03.12.2012
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EditionInternational ed. in English
Subjects
corannulenes
lithium reduction
self-assembly
tetraanions
X-ray diffraction
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Summary:Stack it up: Reduction of corannulene with an excess of lithium metal in dimethoxyethane (DME) results in the formation of remarkable multilayered supramolecular aggregates (see picture) having lithium alkoxo nanobelts encapsulated between two tetrareduced corannulene bowls, [C20H104−/Li6(OR)6Li6/C20H104−]2−. The alkoxo groups (R=CH3O or/and CH3OCH2CH2O) are products of the Li‐induced DME cleavage.
Bibliography:Financial support of this work from the National Science Foundation (CHE-1212441) is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank the University at Albany for supporting the X-ray center and the International Centre for Diffraction Data for the 2012 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship to S.N.S.
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National Science Foundation - No. CHE-1212441
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Financial support of this work from the National Science Foundation (CHE‐1212441) is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank the University at Albany for supporting the X‐ray center and the International Centre for Diffraction Data for the 2012 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship to S.N.S.
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ISSN:1433-7851
1521-3773
DOI:10.1002/anie.201206936