title: Rational design of a nanometre-sized covalent octahedron.
abstract: The thermodynamically controlled reaction of six tetraformylcavitands with twelve rigid, linear diamines yields quantitatively polyimine octahedrons with diameters of up to 5 nm. The cavitands are optimized to match the ideal geometry of a 60° tetratopic vertex unit and are connected along the octahedron edges with the diamines through 24 newly formed imine bonds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
authors.forename: Junling
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Warmuth