title: Compressed Corannulene in a Molecular Cage.
abstract: Self-assembled coordination cages can be employed as a molecular press, where the bowl-shaped guest corannulene (C20H10) is significantly flattened upon inclusion within the hydrophobic cavity. This is demonstrated by the pairwise inclusion of corannulene with naphthalene diimide as well as by the dimer inclusion of bromocorannulene inside the box-like host. The compressed corannulene structures are unambiguously revealed by single-crystal X-ray analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
authors.forename: Bernd M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
authors.forename: Takafumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Osuga
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomohisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sawada
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoshino
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan. mfujita@appchem.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujita
keywords: cage compounds; corannulenes; host-guest systems; supramolecular chemistry; π interactions