Guest Encapsulation Scope of a Triptycene-Based Pd2L4 Coordination Cage

The scope of a lantern-shaped, triptycene-based Pd2L4 coordination cage to encapsulate various carbon-rich guests was investigated. found bind two molecules corannulene and variety C60 derivatives in moderate quantitative yields. Non-disruptive extraction encapsulated fullerene derivative PC61BM from the demonstrated by simple addition CS2 into an acetonitrile solution host–guest complex. This process can be accomplished layer-to-layer fashion, thus, recovered further utilized recycling process. As this self-assembled host is readily synthesized able transfer fullerenes range its polar organic solvents, it allows facilitating purification, chemical modification solid-state processing for materials applications.