A contorted nanographene shelter

Encapsulating large and contorted nanographenes inside artificial receptors remain challenging. This work reports the synthesis, characterization and binding properties of a trigonal prismatic cage compound that can serve as a receptor for contorted nanographene derivatives.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Huang Wu, Yu Wang, Bo Song, Hui-Juan Wang, Jiawang Zhou, Yixun Sun, Leighton O. Jones, Wenqi Liu, Long Zhang, Xuan Zhang, Kang Cai, Xiao-Yang Chen, Charlotte L. Stern, Junfa Wei, Omar K. Farha, Jessica M. Anna, George C. Schatz, Yu Liu, J. Fraser Stoddart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25255-6