Volume 47, Issue 11 pp. 1967-1968

Cover Picture: Directed 1D Assembly of a Ring-Shaped Inorganic Nanocluster Templated by an Organic Rigid-Rod Molecule: An Inorganic/Organic Polypseudorotaxane (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 11/2008)

Md. Akhtarul Alam Dr.

Md. Akhtarul Alam Dr.

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, and Center for NanoBio Integration, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, Fax: (+81) 3-5841-7310 http://macro.chemt.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

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Yeong-Sang Kim Dr.

Yeong-Sang Kim Dr.

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, and Center for NanoBio Integration, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, Fax: (+81) 3-5841-7310 http://macro.chemt.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

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Saho Ogawa

Saho Ogawa

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, and Center for NanoBio Integration, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, Fax: (+81) 3-5841-7310 http://macro.chemt.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

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Akihiko Tsuda Dr.

Akihiko Tsuda Dr.

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, and Center for NanoBio Integration, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, Fax: (+81) 3-5841-7310 http://macro.chemt.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

PRESTO, Japan Science Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan

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Noriyuki Ishii Dr.

Noriyuki Ishii Dr.

(Responsible for TEM microscopy), Biological Information Research Center, AIST, Tsukuba Central 6, 1-1-1 Higashi Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan.

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Takuzo Aida Prof. Dr.

Takuzo Aida Prof. Dr.

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, and Center for NanoBio Integration, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, Fax: (+81) 3-5841-7310 http://macro.chemt.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

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First published: 22 February 2008
Citations: 2

Graphical Abstract

An inorganic/organic polypseudorotaxane …︁ is formed by the template-assisted cofacial assembly of a ring-shaped polyoxomolybdate cluster with a rigid-rod molecule having a high affinity toward the polyoxomolybdate surface, as described by A. Tsuda, T. Aida, and co-workers in their Communication on page 2070 ff. For the construction of this nanoobject, the polyoxomolybdate clusters are threaded along oligomeric p-phenylenebutadiynylene units and are “stitched” together, as shown in the cover picture, to form the 1D structure.

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