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Synfacts 2008(9): 0932-0932  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1078686
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Molecular Nanocubes

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Fei Wang
D. Xu, R. Warmuth*
Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA
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22 August 2008 (online)

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Reported is an edge-directed synthesis of polyimines as nanometer-sized molecular cubes. Cube 3 was obtained in 90% yield via a TFA-catalyzed reaction between 8 equivalents of (P)-1 as the tritopic 90˚ corner units and 12 equivalents of diamine 2 as linear spacers. The cube structures were verified by NMR, MALDI-TOF MS, GPC and DOSY.