Spontaneous assembly of ten components into two interlocked, identical coordination cages

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6739, 1999, Pages 52-55

  Fujita, Makoto ^a,d   Fujita, Norifumi ^b   Ogura, Katsuyuki ^c   Yamaguchi, Kentaro ^c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; CATENANE; METAL ION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033168402     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21861     Document Type: Article

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