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Twisted Cucurbit[14]uril
Author(s) -
Cheng XiaoJie,
Liang LiLi,
Chen Kai,
Ji NingNing,
Xiao Xin,
Zhang JianXin,
Zhang YunQian,
Xue SaiFeng,
Zhu QianJiang,
Ni XinLong,
Tao Zhu
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201210267
Subject(s) - twist , crystallography , molecule , stereochemistry , chemistry , methylene , cucurbituril , combinatorics , mathematics , geometry , supramolecular chemistry , crystal structure , organic chemistry
All in a twist : The largest cucurbit[ n ]uril, namely tQ[14] (see picture; colors indicate sides of the molecule) contains 14 normal glycoluril units linked by 28 methylene bridges. However, it contains a 360° twist. As a consequence, it does not have a normal cavity like the most cucurbit[ n ]urils, and instead has a folded, figure‐of‐eight conformation.