For the first time, porous organic polymers (POPs) based on the smallest buckybowl, corannulene (BB-POPs) have been synthesized. Three POPs were synthesised via Sonogashira co-polymerization of 1,2,5,6-tetrabromocorannulene and alkyne linkers. BB-POP-3 exhibits the highest surface area (SABET = 560 m2 g-1) and CO2 adsorption of 11.7 wt%, while they retain the redox properties of corannulene.

The geometries and binding energies of a recent buckyball tweezers (C(60)H(28)) and its supramolecular complexes are investigated using recently developed density functionals (M06-L and M06-2X) that include an accurate treatment of medium-range correlation energy. The pincer part of the tweezers, corannulene, has a strong attractive interaction with C(60). However, due to the entropy penalty, t...

The synthesis and characterization of two direct platinum (1 and 6a/b) and three ethynyl-platinum corannulene derivatives (2, 8 and 9), bearing 2, 4, or 5 square planar platinum centers, are presented. The structure of the bowl bearing substituents remains comparable to corannulene and the dynamic behavior of the bowl inversion as assessed by VT NMR supports a persistent bowl structure in solut...

Substitution of two or four carbon atoms by nitrogen in the corannulene molecule as a carbon nanostructure was done and the obtained structures were optimized at MP2/6-31G(d) level of theory. Calculations of the nucleus-independent chemical shift (NICS) were performed to analyze the aromaticity of the corannulene rings and its derivatives upon doping with N at B3LYP/6-31G(d) level of theory. Re...

In this study, we address the issues associated with predicting usefully accurate heats of formation for moderately-sized molecules such as corannulene and C(60). We obtain a high-level theoretical heat of formation for corannulene through the use of reaction schemes that conserve increasingly larger molecular fragments between the reactants and products. The reaction enthalpies are obtained by...

A computational modeling of the protonation of corannulene at B3LYP/6-311G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) and of the binding of lithium cations to corannulene at B3LYP/6-311G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) has been performed. A proton attaches preferentially to one carbon atom, forming a sigma-complex. The isomer protonated at the innermost (hub) carbon has the best total energy. Protonation at the outermost ...

Self-assembly of polyaromatic systems has proved to be a powerful technique to construct nanoscale optoelectronic materials. However, attempts to develop self-assembled nanomaterials guided by pristine polyaromatic molecules have been limited. Here the construction of photoactive nanocapsules through the scission of an aromatic bilayer membrane driven by curved corannulene intercalation is repo...

Bonding and aromaticity in the bowl-shaped C5v planar D5h geometries of corannulene D6h geometry coronene are investigated using 3D isosurfaces 2D contour plots isotropic magnetic shielding σiso(r) and, for geometries, out-of-plane component tensor σzz(r). Corannulene both feature conjoined shielded “doughnuts” around a peripheral six-membered carbon ring, suggesting strong bonding interactions...