CRYSTAL ENGINEERING OF DIAMONDOID NETWORKS

The review focuses upon recent research which has demonstrated that mo dular or multi-component strategies for designing and constructing dia mondoid solids can be successful if they are based upon exploiting sym metry and functionality at the molecular level. Diamondoid networks ca n be sustained by a wide range of moieties and attractive forces can r ange from weak (pi-hydrogen bonds) to strong (coordinate covalent bond s) as long as they are directional. The implications of the work in th e general context of crystal engineering and future directions for res earch are also discussed.