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Owing to the orthogonal orientation of the three indane wings in each of the TBTQ units, four veratrole rings point either at right angles or parallel into the 3\u2010space. In contrast to the convex\u2010concave\n anti<\/jats:italic>\n \u2010isomer, the biconcave fusodimer\n syn<\/jats:italic>\n \u2010\n 4<\/jats:bold>\n was found to host C\n 60<\/jats:sub>\n and C\n 70<\/jats:sub>\n fullerenes as 1:1 complexes both in solution and in the solid state, as shown by\n 1<\/jats:sup>\n H NMR spectroscopy and x\u2010ray crystallography. Complexation\u2010induced chemical shift (CIS) measurements gave similar binding constants,\n K<\/jats:italic>\n a<\/jats:sub>\n = 382 (\u00b1 4) for\n syn<\/jats:italic>\n \u2010\n 4<\/jats:bold>\n \u2282C\n 60<\/jats:sub>\n and\n K<\/jats:italic>\n a<\/jats:sub>\n = 410 (\u00b1 8) M\n \u2212<\/jats:sup>\n 1<\/jats:sup>\n for\n syn<\/jats:italic>\n \u2010\n 4<\/jats:bold>\n \u2282C\n 70<\/jats:sub>\n . Structural details of the torsion and widening of the formally\n C<\/jats:italic>\n 2v<\/jats:sub>\n \u2010symmetric host skeleton upon embedding of the fullerenes into the deep biconcave molecular surface of\n syn<\/jats:italic>\n \u2010\n 4<\/jats:bold>\n were determined along with intermolecular peculiarities of the solid\u2010state complexes.\n <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/chem.71574","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,17]],"date-time":"2026-08-17T08:25:16Z","timestamp":1786955116000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Tribenzotriquinacene Fused Dimers (\u201cFusodimers\u201d)\u2014Synthesis and Host\u2013Guest Properties"],"prefix":"10.1002","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9445-6396","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chun\u2010Fai","family":"Ng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin New Territories Hong Kong"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7254-1584","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lisi","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin New Territories Hong Kong"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yin\u2010Ying","family":"Cheung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin New Territories Hong Kong"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8340-1122","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiao\u2010Ping","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University Lanzhou P.R. 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