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Published on: September 18, 2016
Molecular Basis for the Recognition of Higher Fullerenes into Ureidopyrimidinone-Cyclotriveratrylene Self-Assembled
Elisa Huerta1, Stefano Artin Serapian1, Eva Santos1
1Catalan Institute of Chemical Research (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Av. Països Catalans, 16, 43007, Tarragona, Spain.
Abstract:
Fullerenes C60 , C70 , and C84 may be readily encaged within a hydrogen-bonded dimeric capsule, based on two concave cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) scaffolds, each containing three self-complementary 2-ureido-4-[1H]-pyrimidinone (UPy) subunits. NMR spectroscopy and circular dichroism studies, complemented by dispersion-corrected DFT calculations, are reported with the aim of characterizing such capsule-fullerene complexes both structurally and energetically. Six fullerenes are considered: in agreement with experiments, calculations find that encapsulation is most favorable for C84 (on a par with C90 ), and follows the trend C60
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