Organic multishell isostructural host-guest crystals: fullerenes C(60) inside a nitroxide open framework

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 May 4;49(34):3519-21. doi: 10.1039/c3cc00170a.

Abstract

The dinitroxide biradical crystallizes forming hexagonal open frameworks with one-dimensional corrugated channels filled with crystallization solvent. The large pockets constitutive of the channels allowed the inclusion of C(60) in the paramagnetic network. The rapidity and high fidelity of crystal growth were used to prepare isostructural multilayer host-guest crystals successively stained with C(60).