posted on 2010-11-05, 00:00authored byJing Cao, Xiao-Zhang Zhu, Chuan-Feng Chen
A series of pentiptycene-derived rigid tweezer-like molecules have been efficiently synthesized, and their structures have been determined by NMR, MS spectra, and X-ray analysis. Moreover, it was also found that molecular tweezer 15 showed efficient binding ability toward C60.