Diamondoid molecules: with applications in biomedicine, materials science, nanotechnology and petroleum science

摘要

Diamondoids are a peculiar class of hydrocarbon, with unique structures and properties. They possess typical characteristics of diamond face-fused cages with hydrogen-terminated dangling bonds. Diamondoids and derivatives have been of great interest since their discovery, due to their important and diverse roles in biomedicine, materials science, petroleum science and, more recently, nanotechnology. Due to their six or more linking groups, they have found major applications as templates and as molecular building blocks in nanotechnology, polymer synthesis, drug design and delivery and DNA-directed assembly, l'ust to name a few.