Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, 64 (26), e202505083
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202505083
Researchers from Rice University, the University of Pittsburgh, Hope College and ChemMatCARS performed single-crystal X-ray diffraction at NSF’s ChemMatCARS, Sector 15 at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory as part of the synthesis of molecules with deep cavities termed nanogloves. A templated strategy combining resorcin[4]arene and [12]cyclo-meta-phenylene units linked by acetal bonds yields a glove-like architecture with an overall yield of ~53% in the final steps. 1H NMR titration shows association constants exceeding 106 M−1, arising from strong size complementarity and CH–π/π–π interactions, and the nanogloves selectively extract a broad range of fullerenes from carbon soot. This breakthrough points the way to scalable fullerene separation and manipulation.
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Saber Mirzaei1,2*, Hormoz Khosravi1*, Xiangquan Hu1*, M. Saeed Mirzaei1*, Victor M. Espinoza Castro1*, Xu Wang3, Nicholas A. Figueroa4, Tieyan Chang5, Ying-Pin Chen5, Gabriella Prieto Ríos2, Natalia Isabel Gonzalez-Pech4, Yu-Sheng Chen5, and Raúl Hernández Sánchez1,2,6*
1[*]Department of Chemistry, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, Texas 77005, USA
2Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
3Shared Equipment Authority, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, Texas 77005, USA
4Department of Chemistry, Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423, USA
5ChemMatCARS, The University of Chicago, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
6Rice Advanced Materials Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA