Diamonds are a Chemist's Best Friend: Diamondoid Chemistry Beyond Adamantane

摘要: Marilyn Monroe knew that "diamonds are a girl's best friend" but, in the meantime, many chemists have realized they also extremely attractive objects contemporary chemistry. The chemist's diamonds usually quite small (herein: nanometer-sized "diamondoids") and as result of their unique structure unusual chemical building blocks. Since lower diamondoids (up to triamantane) recently become available large amounts from petroleum higher (starting tetramantane) now accessible crude oil new research involving them has begun emerge. Having well-defined structures makes these cage compounds so special compared other nanometer-scale diamonds. Selective high-yielding synthetic approaches functionalization gives derivatives can find applications in, for example, polymers, coating materials, drugs, molecular electronics.