A bis-corannulene based molecular tweezer with highly sensitive and selective complexation of C70 over C60

Deng-Chen Yang; Meng Li; Chuan-Feng Chen

doi:10.1039/C7CC03519E

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A bis-corannulene based molecular tweezer with highly sensitive and selective complexation of C₇₀ over C₆₀†

Deng-Chen Yang,

^ab Meng Li

^a and Chuan-Feng Chen

*^ab

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^a CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
E-mail: cchen@iccas.ac.cn

^b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Abstract

A new molecular tweezer with two corannulene subunits linked by a tetrahydro[5]helicene imide was conveniently synthesized, which showed highly sensitive and selective complexation of C₇₀ over C₆₀via concave–convex π–π interactions, and the K_C70/K_C60 value even was found to be 230/1.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC03519E
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 06 May 2017
Accepted: 01 Aug 2017
First published: 01 Aug 2017

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Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 9336-9339

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A bis-corannulene based molecular tweezer with highly sensitive and selective complexation of C₇₀ over C₆₀

D. Yang, M. Li and C. Chen, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 9336 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC03519E

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