Crystalline molecular gyroscopes: The effects of subtle molecular differences on the crystal packing of triphenylmethyl and triphenylsilyl stators

Karlen SD; Khan SI; Garcia-Garibay MA

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.456, 221-221, 2006

DOI10.1080/15421400600788757 Export Citation

Crystalline molecular gyroscopes: The effects of subtle molecular differences on the crystal packing of triphenylmethyl and triphenylsilyl stators

Karlen SD, Khan SI, Garcia-Garibay MA

Single crystals of molecular gyroscopes, 1,4-bis(3,3,3-triphenylpropynyl)benzene and 1, 4-bis(triphenyl-silanylethynyl)- benzene were studied by single crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis and their packing tendencies were compared to those of analogous structures without the central phenylene rotator.

Keywords:crystal engineering;molecular gyroscopes;six-fold phenyl embrace;X-ray diffraction