Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Chemical mimicry of viral capsid self-assembly via corannulene-based pentatopic tectons

  • Yu-Sheng Chen,
  • Ephrath Solel,
  • Yi-Fan Huang,
  • Chien-Lung Wang,
  • Tsung-Han Tu,
  • Ehud Keinan,
  • Yi-Tsu Chan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11457-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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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.