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This work reports the molecular design of such clusters with high molecular symmetry, as well as the evaluation of the geometric and electronic properties using density functional theory. The computational studies of the double-shell assemblies and their corresponding building blocks were conducted using the B3LYP\/6-31G(d,p) method as implemented in Gaussian 09. The results show that the assembly of the building blocks is energetically favorable, leading to clusters with higher stability than the corresponding shell fragments, with large HOMO\u2013LUMO gap values. In case of aromatic systems, interlayer stacking interactions between benzene rings contribute to the molecular geometry and stability. 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