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SUBMITTER: Leininger S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC26441 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Leininger S S Fan J J Schmitz M M Stang P J PJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20000201 4
A family of nanoscale-sized supramolecular cage compounds with a polyhedral framework is prepared by self-assembly from tritopic building blocks and rectangular corner units via noncovalent coordination interactions. These highly symmetrical cage compounds are described as face-directed, self-assembled truncated tetrahedra with T(d) symmetry. ...[more]