Jasti, RameshMay, James2024-03-252024-03-252024-03-25https://hdl.handle.net/1794/29285Graphitic carbon nanomaterials hold tremendous promise for a variety of applications. The realization of this potential, however, has been hampered by the lack of synthetic methods by which we can prepare such materials in a selective manner. On the other hand, through organic synthesis we can construct small molecule analogues of these materials, a.k.a. molecular nanocarbons, in which the structure and composition can be precisely controlled. In doing so, we uncover the fundamental properties associated with these materials at the molecular size regime and begin to fill the gap between molecular and material properties. Furthermore, with organic synthesis we can begin to create nanocarbon structures with exotic topologies that do naturally occur in extended materials. In doing so, the structural landscape available to explore is limited only by the creativity of the pursuer and the synthetic methods available to them. With this in mind, the incorporation of molecular nanocarbons into mechanically interlocked architectures represents an exciting yet underexplored venture in the context of carbon nanoscience. In this dissertation I describe the development of active-metal template methods to incorporate [n]cycloparaphenylenes ([n]CPPs) into mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs).en-USAll Rights Reserved.active templatecatenanecycloparaphenylenemechanically interlocked moleculesrotaxaneElectronic Thesis or Dissertation