Imitating trumpet shells: Mbius container molecules

Mbius container molecules C64H8,C60N4H4,and C58N6H2 with topological one-sided characteristics were constructed at the first time by imitating natural trumpet shells.The structure is an open cage with an inner hexagonal bridge.The bridge joints the outer and inner surfaces of the cage to form a new one-sided Mbius structure.The optimized structures of the three molecules in the singlet(the ground state),triplet and quintet states are obtained using the density functional theory(B3LYP).For the ground state...