Shapeshifting Double Whammy
We’ve published a pair of papers in Chemical Science on the shapeshifting rearrangements of bullvalenes. The first paper uses principal moments of inertia and exit vector analyses to define exactly what shapes are accessible from the bullvalene scaffold. The second paper demonstrates how the shapeshifting equilibrium network of a bullvalene can be perturbed by the E-to-Z isomerisation of a pendant functional group. Congratulations to all of the co-authors involved!