Aqueous polyaromatic receptors for biomolecules with high selectivity

L Catti, R Sumida, M Yoshizawa - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Mimicking the selective binding ability of biological receptors, providing confined protein
pockets, is a long-standing challenge for synthetic chemists. Preparation of synthetic …

Structural Self‐Assembly and Applications of Metal–Organic Molecular Containers with Flexible Backbones

L Yang, X Huang, S Wang, D Zhang… - Chemistry–A European …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular chemistry has become an interdisciplinary discipline of chemistry, physics,
and biology. As a huge subunit of supramolecular compounds, the functional metal–organic …

Impact of host flexibility on selectivity in a supramolecular host-catalyzed enantioselective aza-Darzens reaction

SM Bierschenk, JY Pan, NS Settineri… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A highly enantioselective aza-Darzens reaction (up to 99% ee) catalyzed by an enantiopure
supramolecular host has been discovered. To understand the role of host structure on …

Revealing the hidden costs of organization in host–guest chemistry using chloride-binding foldamers and their solvent dependence

FC Parks, EG Sheetz, SR Stutsman… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Preorganization is a key concept in supramolecular chemistry. Preorganized receptors
enhance binding by minimizing the organization costs associated with adopting the …

Engineering flexible metal‐phenolic networks with guest responsiveness via intermolecular interactions

W Xu, S Pan, BB Noble, Z Lin… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible metal‐organic materials are of growing interest owing to their ability to undergo
reversible structural transformations under external stimuli. Here, we report flexible metal …

Porous adaptive luminescent metallacage for the detection and removal of perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids

Y He, D Luo, VM Lynch, M Ahmed, JL Sessler, X Chi - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Per-and poly-fluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs) accumulate in water resources and pose
serious environmental and health threats due to their non-biodegradable nature and long …

Adaptive helicity and chiral recognition in bright europium quadruple-stranded helicates induced by host-guest interaction

M Rancan, J Tessarolo, A Carlotto, S Carlotto… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2022 - cell.com
Chiral information transfer is crucial to design new functions like, for instance, sensing
through chiroptical probes in which the input is readout as a consequence of a chiral …

Complexation-driven assembly of imine-linked helical receptors showing adaptive folding and temperature-dependent guest selection

G Song, S Lee, KS Jeong - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
The development of synthetic receptors capable of selectively binding guests with diverse
structures and multiple functional groups poses a significant challenge. Here, we present the …

Guest‐Induced Transformations in Metal‐Organic Cages

EG Percástegui - European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive structural transformations are common in artificial coordination
assemblies and can help expand the engineering of programmable functional materials. In …

Hexanuclear Ln6L6 Complex Formation by Using an Unsymmetric Ligand

DJ Bell, T Zhang, N Geue, CJ Rogers… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multinuclear, self‐assembled lanthanide complexes present clear opportunities as sensors
and imaging agents. Despite the widely acknowledged potential of this class of …