Archimedean solids spherical hosts based

Fig. 5 Spherical hosts based on the Archimedean solids (a) metal-organic cage (truncated tetrahedron), (b) calix[4]resorcinarene spheroid (snub cube), and (c) buckminsterfullerene (truncated icosahedron). (View this art in color at www.dekker.com.)...

Thus, it is herein that we now describe the results of this analysis which we regard as the development of a general strategy for the construction of spherical molecular hosts. [11] We will begin by presenting the idea of self-assembly in the context of spherical hosts and then, after summarizing the Platonic and Archimedean solids, we will provide examples of cubic symmetry-based hosts, from both the laboratory and nature, with structures that conform to these polyhedra. 

We were also able to link the spherical assembly to the Archimedean solid known as the snub cube, Table 2. In a recent review, we have set forth structural classifications and general principles for the design of spherical molecular hosts based, in part, on the solid geometry ideas of Plato and Archimedes [27]. Indeed,... 

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