Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

A curved host and second guest cooperatively inhibit the dynamic motion of corannulene

  • Yang Yang,
  • Tanya K. Ronson,
  • Zifei Lu,
  • Jieyu Zheng,
  • Nicolas Vanthuyne,
  • Alexandre Martinez,
  • Jonathan R. Nitschke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24344-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The preparation of artificial host–guest systems that display dynamic adaptation during guest binding is challenging. Here the authors report a chiral self-assembled tetrahedral cage featuring curved walls that reconfigures stereochemically to fit fullerene guests, regulates corannulene inversion, and enables the determination of co-guest enantiomeric excess by NMR spectroscopy.