Selected Publications
1. Sygula, A. (2016) Invited auto-review “Corannulene-Adorned Molecular Receptors for Fullerenes Utilizing p-p Stacking of the Curved-Surface Conjugated Carbon Networks. Design, Synthesis and Testing” SYNLETT 27, 2070-2080.
2. Kumarasinghe, K.G.U. R.; Fronczek, F. R.; Valle, H. U.; Sygula, A. (2016) “Bis-corannulenoanthracene - an Angularly Fused Pentacene as a Precursor for Barrelene-tethered Receptors for Fullerenes” Org. Lett. 18, 3054-3057.
3. Abeyratne Kuragama, P. L.; Fronczek, F. R; Sygula, A. (2015) “Bis-corannulene Receptors for Fullerenes Based on Klärner’s Tethers: Reaching the Affinity Limits” Org. Lett. 17, 5292-5295.
4. Yanney, M.; Fronczek, F. R.; Sygula, A. (2015) “A 2:1 Receptor/C60 Complex as a Nanosized Universal Joint” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 11153-11156.
5. Le, V. H.; Yanney,M.; McGuire, M.; Sygula, A., Lewis, E. A. (2014) ” Thermodynamics of Host-Guest Interactions Between Fullerenes and a Buckycatcher” J. Phys. Chem. B 2014, 118, 11956-11964.
6. Sygula, A.; Yanney, M.; Henry, W. P.; Fronczek, F. R.; Zabula, A. V.; Petrukhina, M. A. (2014) “Inclusion Complexes and Solvates of Buckycatcher, a Versatile Molecular Host with Two Corannulene Pincers” Cryst. Growth Des. 14, 2633-2639.
7. Zabula, A. V.; Sevryugina, Y. V.; Spisak, S. N.; Kobryn, L.; Sygula, R.; Sygula, A.; Petrukhina, M. A. (2014) “Unsolvated Buckycatcher and its First Dianion “ Chem. Commun. 50, 2657-2659.
8. Yanney, M., Sygula, A. (2013) “Tridental Molecular Clips with Corannulene Pincers: Is Three better than Two?” Tetrahedron Lett. 54, 2604-2607.
9. Janowski, T.; Pulay, P.; Karunarathna, A. A. S.; Sygula, A.; Saebo, S. (2011)“Concave-Convex Stacking of Curved Conjugated Networks: Benchmark Calculations on the Corannulene Dimer” Chem. Phys. Lett. 512, 155-160.
10. Sygula, A.; Collier, W. (2011) “Molecular Clips and Tweezers with Corannulene Pincers”
Chapter 1 in “Fragments of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes: Design Synthesis, Unusual Reactions, and Coordination Chemistry” Petrukhina, M. A.; Scott, L. T., Eds.; Wiley; Hoboken, NJ, pp. 1- 40.
11. Mück-Lichtenfeld, C.; Grimme, S.; Kobryn, L., Sygula, A. (2010) “Inclusion Complexes of Buckycatcher with C60 and C70” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 12, 7091-7097.
12. Sygula, A.; Fronczek, F. R.; Sygula, R.; Rabideau, P. W.; Olmstead. M. M. (2007)“A Double Concave Hydrocarbon Buckycatcher” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 3842-3843.
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