A nanometre-sized hexahedral coordination capsule assembled from 24 components

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6730, 1999, Pages 794-796

  Takeda, Nobuhiro ^a   Umemoto, Kazuhiko ^b   Yamaguchi, Kentaro ^c   Fujita, Makoto ^a,d  

^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

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; METAL ION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033614408     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19734     Document Type: Article

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