Assembly and applications of macrocyclic-confinement-derived supramolecular organic luminescent emissions from cucurbiturils

H Nie, Z Wei, XL Ni, Y Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cucurbit [n] urils (Q [n] s or CB [n] s), as a classical of artificial organic macrocyclic hosts,
were found to have excellent advantages in the fabricating of tunable and smart organic …

Molecular engineering of noncovalent dimerization

G Wu, F Li, B Tang, X Zhang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Dimers are probably the simplest model to facilitate the understanding of fundamental
physical and chemical processes that take place in much-expanded systems like …

Aromatic bridged bis (triphenylamine) cascade assembly achieved tunable nanosupramolecular morphology and nir targeted cell imaging

J Yu, J Niu, J Yue, LH Wang, Y Liu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Possessing four cationic pyridium groups, phenyl-bridged bis (triphenylamine) derivatives
(G1, G2) were encapsulated by cucurbit [8] uril (CB [8]) at a 1: 2 stoichiometry to form the …

A pH-sensing fluorescent metal–organic framework: pH-triggered fluorescence transition and detection of mycotoxin

SL Yang, WS Liu, G Li, R Bu, P Li, EQ Gao - Inorganic Chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Due to its great relevance to environmental, biological, and chemical processes, the precise
detection of pH or acidic/basic species is an ongoing and imperative need. In this context …

Oligomeric cucurbituril complexes: from peculiar assemblies to emerging applications

X Yang, R Wang, A Kermagoret… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Proteins are an endless source of inspiration. By carefully tuning the amino‐acid sequence
of proteins, nature made them evolve from primary to quaternary structures, a property …

Quantitative supramolecular heterodimerization for efficient energy transfer

G Wu, Z Huang, OA Scherman - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The challenge of quantitatively forming self‐assembled heterodimers without other
equilibrium by‐products is overcome through self‐sorting favored by the introduction of …

Controlling the structure and photophysics of fluorophore dimers using multiple cucurbit [8] uril clampings

G Wu, YJ Bae, M Olesińska, D Antón-García… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A modular strategy has been employed to develop a new class of fluorescent molecules,
which generates discrete, dimeric stacked fluorophores upon complexation with multiple …

Supramolecular assemblies working as both artificial light-harvesting system and nanoreactor for efficient organic dehalogenation in aqueous environment

X Li, S Yu, Z Shen, R Wang, W Zhang… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, three artificial light-harvesting systems are constructed by a supramolecular
approach in aqueous environment. The water-soluble bipyridinium derivatives (DPY1 …

Modular supramolecular dimerization of optically tunable extended aryl viologens

M Olesińska, G Wu, S Gómez-Coca… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Cucurbit [8] uril (CB [8]) mediated assembly of extended aryl viologens (EVs) into optically
tunable dimers is reported for the first time. We show that the modular design and synthesis …

Tunable White-Light Emissions of Azapyrene Derivatives with Cucurbit[n]uril Hosts in Aqueous Solution

G Fan, X Yu, X Han, Z Zhao, S Liu - Organic Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cucurbit [n] uril (CB [n])-mediated assembly of π-conjugated azapyrene derivatives with rigid
aromatic rings as bridging units into optically tunable complexes is reported. Due to the …