Semiconducting Single Crystals Comprising Segregated Arrays of Complexes of C60

By Barnes, Jonathan C.; Dale, Edward J.; Prokofjevs, Aleksandrs; Narayanan, Ashwin; Gibbs-Hall, Ian C.; Juric
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society NULL 2015

Abstract

Although pristine C60 prefers to adopt a face-centered cubic packing arrangement in the solid state, it has been demonstrated that noncovalent-bonding interactions with a variety of molecular receptors lead to the complexation of C60 molecules, albeit usually with little or no control over their long-range order. Herein, an extended viologen-based cyclophane—ExBox24+—has been employed as a molecular receptor which, not only binds C60 one-on-one, but also results in the col

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