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Open‐cage fullerenes as tailor‐made container for a single water molecule |
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| Authors: | Lijun Shi Liangbing Gan |
| Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, , Beijing, 100871 China;2. State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, , Shanghai, 200032 China |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Keywords: | molecular container water chemistry fullerene |