PREFACE ....................................................... vii
FOREWORD ....................................................... xi
CONTRIBUTORS ................................................. xiii
ACRONYMS ..................................................... xvii
1 MOLECULAR CLIPS AND TWEEZERS WITH CORANNULENE PINCERS ........ 1
Andrzej Sygula and Willard E. Collier
2 SYNTHESIS OF BOWL-SHAPED AND BASKET-SHAPED FULLERENE
FRAGMENTS VIA BENZANNULATED ENYNE-ALLENES ................... 41
Kung K. Wang, Hu Cui, and Bo Wen
3 ANIONS OF BUCKYBOWLS ........................................ 63
David Eisenberg, Roy Shenhar, and Mordecai Rabinovitz
4 CURVED π-CONJUGATED STABLE OPEN-SHELL SYSTEMS POSSESSING
THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOLECULAR/ELECTRONIC SPIN STRUCTURES ...... 95
Yasushi Morita and Akira Ueda
5 EXPERIMENTAL AND CALCULATED PROPERTIES OF FULLERENE AND
NANOTUBE FRAGMENTS ......................................... 135
Derek R. Jones, Praveen Bachawala, and James Mack
6 COORDINATION PREFERENCES OF BOWL-SHAPED POLYAROMATIC
HYDROCARBONS ............................................... 157
Alexander S. Filatov and Marina A. Petrukhina
7 SUMANENES: SYNTHESIS AND COMPLEXATION ...................... 187
Toshikazu Hirao and Tom Amaya
8 σ-BONDED TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES OF POLYCYCLIC
AROMATIC CARBON COMPOUNDS .................................. 205
Paul R. Sharp
9 HEMISPHERICAL GEODESIC POLYARENES: ATTRACTIVE TEMPLATES
FOR THE CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF UNIFORM-DIAMETER ARMCHAIR
NANOTUBES .................................................. 235
Anthony P. Belanger, Katharine A. Mirica, James Mack, and
Lawrence T. Scott
10 AROMATIC BELTS AS SECTIONS OF NANOTUBES .................... 259
Gaston R. Schaller and Rainer Herges
11 CYCLOPARAPHENYLENES: THE SHORTEST POSSIBLE SEGMENTS OF
ARMCHAIR CARBON NANOTUBES .................................. 291
Xia Tian and Ramesh Jasti
12 CONJUGATED MOLECULAR BELTS BASED ON 3D BENZANNULENE
SYSTEMS .................................................... 311
Masahiko Iyoda, Yoshiyuki Kuwatani, Tohru Nishinaga,
Masayoshi Takase, and Tomohiko Nishiuchi
13 TOWARD FULLY UNSATURATED DOUBLE-STRANDED CYCLES ............ 343
Malte Standera and A. Dieter Schlüter
14 BENT PYRENES: SPRINGBOARDS TO AROMATIC BELTS? .............. 367
Graham J. Bodwell, Gandikota Venkataramana, and Unikela
Kiran Sagar
INDEX ......................................................... 401
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