The research described in this product was performed in part in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientific user facility sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Supramolecular chemistry has been a very active area since the
seminal work of Lehn.1-4 Macrocycles are versatile building blocks
for supramolecular design. Conjugated macrocycles with a beltlike
shape in which the conjugated orbitals are hybridized orbitals
directed radially5-7 (as compared to pure p-orbitals normal to a
plane in polyacenes and polyaphenes) provide especially intriguing
opportunities for such design; carbon nanotubes8 and hydrocarbon
nanorings6,9-15 are exemplary cases.
Revised: April 7, 2011 |
Published: July 11, 2007
Citation
Zhao Y., and D.G. Truhlar. 2007.Size-Selective Supramolecular Chemistry in a Hydrocarbon Nanoring.Journal of the American Chemical Society 129, no. 27:8440-8442. doi:10.1021/ja071884q