Compound 1 was originally designed as a mimic of antimicrobial peptides 12. It is a triarylamide comprising two 1,3-diaminobenzene units linked by a 4,6-dicarboxy-substituted pyrimidine and two ...

There are only 13 “Archimedean solids” – a family of symmetrical, 3D polyhedra attributed to the Greek mathematician. Now chemists have made a molecule-scale version of one of these special structures ...