Purely covalent molecular cages and containers for guest encapsulation

G Montà-González, F Sancenón… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cage compounds offer unique binding pockets similar to enzyme-binding sites, which can
be customized in terms of size, shape, and functional groups to point toward the cavity and …

Molecular cavity for catalysis and formation of metal nanoparticles for use in catalysis

R Saha, B Mondal, PS Mukherjee - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The employment of weak intermolecular interactions in supramolecular chemistry offers an
alternative approach to project artificial chemical environments like the active sites of …

Coordination-directed self-assembly of functional polynuclear lanthanide supramolecular architectures

XZ Li, CB Tian, QF Sun - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide supramolecular chemistry is a fast growing and intriguing research field due to
the unique photophysical, magnetic, and coordination properties of lanthanide ions (LnIII) …

Lattice‐Strain Engineering for Heterogenous Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Z Hou, C Cui, Y Li, Y Gao, D Zhu, Y Gu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The energy efficiency of metal–air batteries and water‐splitting techniques is severely
constrained by multiple electronic transfers in the heterogenous oxygen evolution reaction …

Self-assembled metallacage with second near-infrared aggregation-induced emission for enhanced multimodal theranostics

Y Qin, X Chen, Y Gui, H Wang, BZ Tang… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The construction of supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs) featuring prominent
cancer theranostic functions is an appealing yet significantly challenging task. In this study …

Increasing structural and functional complexity in self-assembled coordination cages

S Pullen, J Tessarolo, GH Clever - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Progress in metallo-supramolecular chemistry creates potential to synthesize functional
nano systems and intelligent materials of increasing complexity. In the past four decades …

Switchable metallacycles and metallacages

HY Lin, YT Wang, X Shi, HB Yang, L Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional metallacycles and three-dimensional metallacages constructed by
coordination-driven self-assembly have attracted much attention because they exhibit …

Metallosupramolecular cages: from design principles and characterisation techniques to applications

AJ McConnell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Although metallosupramolecular cages are self-assembled from seemingly simple building
blocks, metal ions and organic ligands, architectures of increasingly large size and …

Self-Assembly and photothermal conversion of metallarussian doll and metalla [2] catenanes induced via multiple stacking interactions

T Chen, Y Zhao, LL Dang, TT Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A variety of organometallic supramolecular architectures have been constructed over the
past decades and their properties were also explored via different strategies. However, the …

Water-soluble self-assembled cage with triangular metal–metal-bonded units enabling the sequential selective separation of alkanes and isomeric molecules

LJ Wang, S Bai, YF Han - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The selective separation of structurally similar aliphatic/aromatic hydrocarbons is an
essential goal in industrial processes. In this study, we report the synthesis of a water …