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Cover Picture: A “Clickable” Hybrid Nanocluster of Cubic Symmetry (Chem. Eur. J. 19/2010)
Author(s) -
Heyl Dirk,
Rikowski Eckhard,
Hoffmann Rudolf C.,
Schneider Jörg J.,
Fessner WolfDieter
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201090088
Subject(s) - astronomer , polyhedron , cube (algebra) , symmetry (geometry) , painting , the renaissance , cover (algebra) , regular polygon , art , click chemistry , theoretical physics , polymer science , computer graphics (images) , art history , physics , combinatorics , computer science , materials science , geometry , polymer chemistry , mathematics , mechanical engineering , engineering
A “Platonic scaffold” with eightfold cubic symmetry, functionalized for click conjugation, has been developed for the rapid assembly of multivalent glycoclusters and is described by W.‐D. Fessner et al. in their Communication on page 5544 ff. The pictures on the front, lateral, and top faces of the cube show the famous painting “The School of Athens” by Italian renaissance artist Raffaello Santi depicting Plato amidst other ancient Greek philosophers, the five regular convex polyhedra known as the “Platonic solids”, and their use by 16th‐century German astronomer Johannes Kepler to define a model of the solar system.