Before the group's discovery, crystalline carbon was thought to adopt only a handful of
different molecular architectures, including those found in diamond and graphite.
Thus, we designed and synthesized new
molecular architectures based on the 3D Janus tecton concept, suitable for self - assembly on surface by supramolecular interactions such as coordination, halogen bond or hydrogen bond.3 Here we present two
different model pyridyl end - capped molecules: the pedestal P1, and the naked pillar NP pedestal incorporating a cyclophane core.