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Open‐cage fullerenes as tailor‐made container for a single water molecule
Author(s) -
Shi Lijun,
Gan Liangbing
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of physical organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1395
pISSN - 0894-3230
DOI - 10.1002/poc.3169
Subject(s) - chemistry , cage , fullerene , molecule , bottle , container (type theory) , water bottle , liquid water , nanotechnology , trap (plumbing) , chemical physics , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , composite material , meteorology , materials science , physics , mathematics , combinatorics , engineering , thermodynamics
Water is the most important liquid on earth. Clusters of water have been investigated extensively in an effort to understand the bulk property of water. But the behavior of single water molecule without H‐bond has been rarely studied. Open‐cage [60]fullerenes have been shown to trap a single water molecule selectively over molecules with comparable size and act as the smallest “water bottle”. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.