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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15914
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP25104011/JP26288033/JP17H05359]
- SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India [SB/S1/IC-05/2014]
- 'Support for Tokyotech Advanced Researchers (STAR)'
- JSPS
- CSIR, India
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K21740, 16K13947, 25104011] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Mimicking biological structures such as fruits and seeds using molecules and molecular assemblies is a great synthetic challenge. Here we report peanut-shaped nanostructures comprising two fullerene molecules fully surrounded by a dumbbell-like polyaromatic shell. The shell derives from a molecular double capsule composed of four W-shaped polyaromatic ligands and three metal ions. Mixing the double capsule with various fullerenes (that is, C-60, C-70 and Sc3N@C-80) gives rise to the artificial peanuts with lengths of similar to 3 nm in quantitative yields through the release of the single metal ion. The rational use of both metal-ligand coordination bonds and aromatic-aromatic pi-stacking interactions as orthogonal chemical glue is essential for the facile preparation of the multicomponent, biomimetic nanoarchitectures.
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