Fragments of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes

This book is the first of its kind to reflect upon the intense and rapidly growing interest in open geodesic polyaromatic molecules, specifically focusing on their synthesis and reactivity in metal binding reactions.   The book broadly covers all aspects related to the fullerene fragment chemistry: current synthetic techniques, description of the available members of this new family (which has grown to more than two dozens members, with none being available commercially), molecular geometry and trends in the solid state packing, as well as extensions into physical properties and new buckybowl-based molecules and materials.  It covers fundamental research related to a new class of hydrocarbons, namely open geodesic polyarenes that map onto the surfaces of fullerenes (and referred to as fullerene fragments or buckybowls.

PREFACE vii FOREWORD xi CONTRIBUTORS xiii ACRONYMS xvii 1 MOLECULAR CLIPS AND TWEEZERS WITH CORANNULENE PINCERS 1 Andrzej Sygula and Willard E. Collier 2 SYNTHESIS OF BOWL-SHAPED AND BASKET-SHAPED FULLERENE FRAGMENTS VIA BENZANNULATED ENYNE---ALLENES 41 Kung K. Wang, Hu Cui, and Bo Wen 3 ANIONS OF BUCKYBOWLS 63 David Eisenberg, Roy Shenhar, and Mordecai Rabinovitz 4 CURVED p-CONJUGATED STABLE OPEN-SHELL SYSTEMS POSSESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOLECULAR/ELECTRONIC SPIN STRUCTURES 95 Yasushi Morita and Akira Ueda 5 EXPERIMENTAL AND CALCULATED PROPERTIES OF FULLERENE AND NANOTUBE FRAGMENTS 135 Derek R. Jones, Praveen Bachawala, and James Mack 6 COORDINATION PREFERENCES OF BOWL-SHAPED POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBONS 157 Alexander S. Filatov and Marina A. Petrukhina 7 SUMANENES: SYNTHESIS AND COMPLEXATION 187 Toshikazu Hirao and Toru Amaya 8 r-BONDED TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC CARBON COMPOUNDS 205 Paul R. Sharp 9 HEMISPHERICAL GEODESIC POLYARENES: ATTRACTIVE TEMPLATES FOR THE CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF UNIFORM-DIAMETER ARMCHAIR NANOTUBES 235 Anthony P. Belanger, Katharine A. Mirica, James Mack, and Lawrence T. Scott 10 AROMATIC BELTS AS SECTIONS OF NANOTUBES 259 Gaston R. Schaller and Rainer Herges 11 CYCLOPARAPHENYLENES: THE SHORTEST POSSIBLE SEGMENTS OF ARMCHAIR CARBON NANOTUBES 291 Xia Tian and Ramesh Jasti 12 CONJUGATED MOLECULAR BELTS BASED ON 3D BENZANNULENE SYSTEMS 311 Masahiko Iyoda, Yoshiyuki Kuwatani, Tohru Nishinaga, Masayoshi Takase, and Tomohiko Nishiuchi 13 TOWARD FULLY UNSATURATED DOUBLE-STRANDED CYCLES 343 Malte Standera and A. Dieter Schl€uter 14 BENT PYRENES: SPRINGBOARDS TO AROMATIC BELTS? 367 Graham J. Bodwell, Gandikota Venkataramana, and Unikela Kiran Sagar INDEX 401