Templating Linear Alignment of Fullerene C60 Molecules Involving a Curved Macrocycle

Marck Norret; Mohamed Makha; Alexandre N. Sobolev; Colin L. Raston

doi:10.1071/CH08040

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Templating Linear Alignment of Fullerene C₆₀ Molecules Involving a Curved Macrocycle

Marck Norret ^A , Mohamed Makha ^A , Alexandre N. Sobolev ^A and Colin L. Raston ^A ^B

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^A Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, M313, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.

^B Corresponding author. Email: colin.raston@uwa.edu.au

Australian Journal of Chemistry 61(4) 279-282 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH08040
Submitted: 1 February 2008 Accepted: 17 March 2008 Published: 24 April 2008

Abstract

A nickel macrocycle bearing 15-crown-5 ether pendant moieties forms a 1:1 complex with fullerene C₆₀, with the macrocycle templating the formation of linear arrays of the fullerenes, and the inter-fullerene contacts being associated with parallel six-membered rings, with the fullerene…fullerene centroid distances remarkably short at 9.757 Å. Three crystalline solids involving this macrocycle were isolated and studied by X-ray structure analysis and the complex reveals a self-inclusion mode of packing in its guest-free form, while acting as a host in its inclusion compounds with C₆₀ and C₆₀/toluene.

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We gratefully acknowledge support of this work by the Australian Research Council.

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Templating Linear Alignment of Fullerene C60 Molecules Involving a Curved Macrocycle

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Templating Linear Alignment of Fullerene C₆₀ Molecules Involving a Curved Macrocycle