Entangling strands in a well-ordered manner can produce useful effects, from shoelaces and
fishing nets to brown paper packages tied up with strings. At the nanoscale, non-crystalline …

The first synthetic molecular trefoil knot was prepared in the late 1980s. However, it is only in
the last few years that more complex small‐molecule knot topologies have been realized …

Knots may ultimately prove just as versatile and useful at the nanoscale as at the
macroscale. However, the lack of synthetic routes to all but the simplest molecular knots …

Molecular nanotopology—a term we coined recently—is a rapidly developing field of
research that is emerging out of the confluence of chemical topology with the mechanical …

Current strategies for the synthesis of molecular knots focus on twisting, folding and/or
threading molecular building blocks. Here we report that Zn (ii) or Fe (ii) ions can be used to …

Molecular knots are often prepared using metal helicates to cross the strands. We found that
coordinatively mismatching oligodentate ligands and metal ions provides a more effective …

Artificial molecular machines (AMMs) have profoundly enhanced scientists' capability to
manipulate the relative movements of components within molecules. Mechanically …

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Contrary to the simple expectations from Coulomb's law, Weinhold proposed that anions can
stabilize each other as metastable dimers, yet experimental evidence for these species and …

A (FeII) 6-coordinated triply interlocked (“Star of David”)[2] catenane (612 link) and a (FeII) 5-
coordinated pentafoil (51) knot are found to selectively transport anions across phospholipid …