title: Synthesis and Bowl-in-Bowl Assembly of a Geodesic Phenylene Bowl.
abstract: A phenylene multiring with a corannulenoidal skeleton was synthesized. Geodesic constraints over 20 phenylene panels resulted in its nanometer-sized, bowl-shaped molecular structure, which was unequivocally revealed by crystallographic analysis. The crystal structure also showed the presence of a bowl-in-bowl dimeric assembly, which was driven by entropic factors in solution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, JST, ERATO, Isobe Degenerate π-Integration Project, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
authors.forename: Koki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikemoto
authors.affiliation: Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
authors.forename: Ryo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, JST, ERATO, Isobe Degenerate π-Integration Project, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
authors.forename: Sota
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, JST, ERATO, Isobe Degenerate π-Integration Project, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.|Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8907-0694
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Isobe
keywords: macrocycles; meta-phenylene; molecular recognition; nanostructures; self-assembly