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Cover Feature: Octapalladium Strings Trap C 60 and C 70 Fullerenes Affording Metal‐Chain‐Wired Bucky Balls (Chem. Eur. J. 51/2021)
Author(s) -
Tanase Tomoaki,
Nakamae Kanako,
Kitagawa Yasutaka,
Nakajima Takayuki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.202102907
Subject(s) - enantiopure drug , fullerene , chirality (physics) , metal , materials science , nanotechnology , chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , enantioselective synthesis , metallurgy , quantum mechanics , catalysis , chiral symmetry breaking , quark , nambu–jona lasinio model
The cover picture shows octapalladium metal strings catching a soccer ball of C 60 or C 70 fullerene in the central Pd–Pd junction to give metal‐chain‐wired bucky balls. The enantiopure chiral Pd 8 strings also afforded the chiral bucky balls through dimensionally and chirality controlled self‐assembly. These findings could provide a new platform for developing functional metal‐carbon nanocomposite materials, including nano‐electronics with unusual properties derived from the combination of redox active fullerenes and metal chains. More information can be found in the Communication by T. Tanase et al. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202102020).