This book is the first of its kind to reflect upon the intense and rapidly growing interest in open geodesic polyaromatic molecules, specifically focusing on their synthesis and reactivity in metal binding reactions. The book broadly covers all aspects related to the fullerene fragment chemistry: current synthetic techniques, description of the available members of this new family (which has grown to more than two dozens members, with none being available commercially), molecular geometry and trends in the solid state packing, as well as extensions into physical properties and new buckybowl-based molecules and materials. It covers fundamental research related to a new class of hydrocarbons, namely open geodesic polyarenes that map onto the surfaces of fullerenes (and referred to as fullerene fragments or buckybowls.

PREFACE viiFOREWORD xiCONTRIBUTORS xiiiACRONYMS xvii1 MOLECULAR CLIPS AND TWEEZERS WITH CORANNULENE PINCERS 1Andrzej Sygula and Willard E. Collier2 SYNTHESIS OF BOWL-SHAPED AND BASKET-SHAPED FULLERENE FRAGMENTSVIA BENZANNULATED ENYNE---ALLENES 41Kung K. Wang, Hu Cui, and Bo Wen3 ANIONS OF BUCKYBOWLS 63David Eisenberg, Roy Shenhar, and Mordecai Rabinovitz4 CURVED p-CONJUGATED STABLE OPEN-SHELL SYSTEMS POSSESSINGTHREE-DIMENSIONAL MOLECULAR/ELECTRONIC SPIN STRUCTURES 95Yasushi Morita and Akira Ueda5 EXPERIMENTAL AND CALCULATED PROPERTIES OF FULLERENE ANDNANOTUBE FRAGMENTS 135Derek R. Jones, Praveen Bachawala, and James Mack6 COORDINATION PREFERENCES OF BOWL-SHAPED POLYAROMATICHYDROCARBONS 157Alexander S. Filatov and Marina A. Petrukhina7 SUMANENES: SYNTHESIS AND COMPLEXATION 187Toshikazu Hirao and Toru Amaya8 r-BONDED TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATICCARBON COMPOUNDS 205Paul R. Sharp9 HEMISPHERICAL GEODESIC POLYARENES: ATTRACTIVE TEMPLATES FORTHE CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF UNIFORM-DIAMETER ARMCHAIR NANOTUBES235Anthony P. Belanger, Katharine A. Mirica, James Mack, andLawrence T. Scott10 AROMATIC BELTS AS SECTIONS OF NANOTUBES 259Gaston R. Schaller and Rainer Herges11 CYCLOPARAPHENYLENES: THE SHORTEST POSSIBLE SEGMENTS OFARMCHAIR CARBON NANOTUBES 291Xia Tian and Ramesh Jasti12 CONJUGATED MOLECULAR BELTS BASED ON 3D BENZANNULENE SYSTEMS311Masahiko Iyoda, Yoshiyuki Kuwatani, Tohru Nishinaga, MasayoshiTakase, and Tomohiko Nishiuchi13 TOWARD FULLY UNSATURATED DOUBLE-STRANDED CYCLES 343Malte Standera and A. Dieter SchlEURuter14 BENT PYRENES: SPRINGBOARDS TO AROMATIC BELTS? 367Graham J. Bodwell, Gandikota Venkataramana, and Unikela KiranSagarINDEX 401