Nature Communications (Aug 2019)
Chemical mimicry of viral capsid self-assembly via corannulene-based pentatopic tectons
Abstract
The icosahedron, as the polyhedron closest in symmetry to the sphere, is one of the most compelling Platonic solids for chemists to construct. Here, the authors assemble a supramolecular icosahedron from twelve pentatopic corannulene-based tectons, a strategy that was proposed over a decade ago but only now synthetically realized.