Foregoing Rigidity to Achieve Greater Intimacy

摘要

Interactions between the surfaces of planar and nonplanar molecules have generated considerable interest in materials chemistry as critical elements for understanding two-dimensional supramolecular assembly, molecular and chiral recognition, and heterogeneous catalysis. Carbon-rich ball-and bowl-shaped polyaromatic molecules, such as fullerenes and fullerene fragments or buckybowls, figure prominently in these studies. Fullerenes have been found to form solid constructs with planar metalloporphyrins with remarkably close contacts but without the need for matching their convex and concave faces.