Figuration of bowl-shaped π-conjugated molecules: properties and functions - Materials Chemistry
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Euler, a Swiss mathematician, demonstrated that a planar sheet of hexagons can be
converted to a curved surface by inclusion of pentagons, 12 being a “magic” number for the …

π–π stacking interactions, as a kind of attractive and nondestructive noncovalent interaction,
have been widely explored for the applications in modern chemistry, molecular biology, and …

Since the discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60 (Chart 1) by Kroto, Smalley, and Curl, 1-4 a
number of reports concerning new carbon allotropes having a variety of threedimensional …

The inaccessibility of uniform-diameter, single-chirality carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in pure
form continues to thwart efforts by scientists to use these ultrathin materials in innovative …

Double Diels− Alder addition of isocorannulenofuran to dibenzocyclooctadiyne followed by
deoxygenation produces a molecular tweezers C60H28 with two corannulene pincers and a …

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Unlike typical polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, such as coronene, which are flat and
planar, corannulene is a molecular bowl of carbon. It can be imagined as the cap region of …

Curved π-conjugated molecules have attracted considerable interest because of the unique
properties originating from their curved π surface. However, the synthesis of such distorted …

Glycan–protein interactions are of utmost importance in several biological phenomena.
Although the variety of carbohydrate residues in mammalian cells is limited to less than a …