Synthesis and Host-Guest Chemistry of Pyrene-Embedded Helical Carbon Nanohoops.
Herein, we report the synthesis of pyrene-embedded carbon nanohoops (3PyCPP) via a triangular gold complex-templated assembly strategy, in which three pyrene units are strategically linked at their 1,6-positions. This synthetic approach yields four crystal structures, and only the enantiomeric conformers [(15,6)AAA3PyC...