The making of aromatic molecular Möbius belts

Qing Hui Guo; J. Fraser Stoddart

doi:10.1016/j.chempr.2022.06.024

The making of aromatic molecular Möbius belts

Qing Hui Guo^*, J. Fraser Stoddart^*

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Chemistry

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Abstract

Recently in Nature Synthesis, Itami, Segawa, and co-workers report their synthesis of an armchair carbon nanobelt with the topology of a Möbius strip. This recent breakthrough will capture the attention of chemists studying the molecular nanotopology of carbon nanostructures.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2076-2078
Number of pages	3
Journal	Chem
Volume	8
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2022.06.024
State	Published - Aug 11 2022

Funding

Q.-H.G. gratefully acknowledges the financial support from Zhejiang University (ZJU), the ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center , the Starry Night Science Fund of the ZJU Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study (SN-ZJU-SIAS-006), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 22193020 and 22193022 ). J.F.S. acknowledges support from Northwestern University . We thank Mr. Yang Liu and Dr. Ting Liu for preparing the graphical representations in Figure 1 C and the chemical structures in Figure 1 D, respectively.

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General Chemical Engineering
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