I don’t really have anything to say about this recent paper by Anderson, et al.1 They have simply prepared a very beautiful structure, an aryllated analogue of 1. They even optimized the structure of 1 at BLYP/6-31G(d) and it’s shown in Figure 1. That must have taken some time!

Figure 1. BLYP/6-31G(d) optimized structure of 1.
(Remember that you can manipulate this structure by simply clicking on in, which will launch the JMol app.)

References

(1) Neuhaus, P.; Cnossen, A.; Gong, J. Q.; Herz, L. M.; Anderson, H. L. "A Molecular Nanotube with Three-Dimensional π-Conjugation," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7344-7348, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201502735.