Pentaindenocorannulene (C50 H20 , 1), a deep bowl polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon, accepts 4 electrons, crystallizes in columnar bowl-in-bowl assemblies and forms a nested C60 @12 complex. Spectra, structures and computations are presented.
Keywords: C60; corannulenes; cyclic voltammetry; dynamic NMR spectroscopy; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
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