Supramolecular coordination cages for artificial photosynthesis and synthetic photocatalysis

R Ham, CJ Nielsen, S Pullen, JNH Reek - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Because sunlight is the most abundant energy source on earth, it has huge potential for
practical applications ranging from sustainable energy supply to light driven chemistry. From …

Coordination-driven electrocatalysts as an evolving wave of enthusiasm for sustainable hydrogen production

S Diyali, N Diyali, B Biswas - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrogen emerges as one of the cleanest and most renewable energy resources for fossil
fuel alternatives. Commercial-scale hydrogen production through water-splitting …

Elaborating E/Z‐Geometry of Alkenes via Cage‐Confined Arylation Catalysis of Terminal Olefins

Y Wang, J Chen, J Yang, Z Jiao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A visible light photosensitizing metal‐organic cage is applied as an artificial supramolecular
reactor to control the reaction of aryl radicals with terminal olefins under green light/solvent …

Modeling the Enzyme Specificity by Molecular Cages through Regulating Reactive Oxygen Species Evolution

JP Yuan, ZJ Guan, HY Lin, B Yan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mimicking the active site and the substrate binding cavity of the enzyme to achieve
specificity in catalytic reactions is an essential challenge. Herein, porous coordination cages …

Selenoviologen‐Appendant Metallacycles with Highly Stable Radical Cations and Long‐Lived Charge Separation States for Electrochromism and Photocatalysis

S Zhang, L Ma, W Ma, L Chen, K Gao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Two coordinated metallacycles (rhomboid for M1, hexagonal for M2) with selenoviologens
(SeV2+) pendants were synthesized via coordination‐driven hierarchical self‐assembly …

Photocatalysis meets confinement: an emerging opportunity for photoinduced organic transformations

Y Hao, YL Lu, Z Jiao, CY Su - … Chemie International Edition, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembled metal‐organic cages (MOCs) have been evolved as a paradigm of
enzyme‐mimic catalysts since they are able to synergize multifunctionalities inherent in …

Visible Light-Triggered and Catalyst- and Template-Free syn-Selective [2 + 2] Cycloaddition of Chalcones: Solid-State Suspension Reaction in Water to Access syn …

X Song, J Gu, E Zhang, Y Jiang, M Xin… - ACS Sustainable …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Light-driven [2+ 2] cycloaddition of olefins is a kind of atom-economic and green
transformation for building cyclobutane scaffolds, which are widely found in bioactive …

Thiacalix [4] arene macrocycles as versatile building blocks for the rational design of high-nuclearity metallic clusters, metallamacrocycles, porous coordination cages …

IV Khariushin, V Bulach, SE Solovieva… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
The preparation and rational design of nanosized clusters (M n) and cages based on the
macrocyclic thiacalix [4] arene backbone in cone conformation has been analysed in the …

Photocatalysis in supramolecular fluorescent metallacycles and metallacages

HY Lin, LY Zhou, L Xu - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The utilization of photocatalytic techniques for achieving light‐to‐fuel conversion is a
promising way to ease the shortage of energy and degradation of the ecological …

Selective gas adsorption by calixarene-based porous octahedral M 32 coordination cages

IV Khariushin, AS Ovsyannikov, SA Baudron… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Giant octahedral M32 coordination cages were prepared via self-assembly of sulfonylcalix
[4] arene-supported tetranuclear M (II) clusters (M= Co, Ni) with hybrid linker based on tris …