Beyond platonic: how to build metal–organic polyhedra capable of binding low-symmetry, information-rich molecular cargoes

CT McTernan, JA Davies, JR Nitschke - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The field of metallosupramolecular chemistry has advanced rapidly in recent years. Much
work in this area has focused on the formation of hollow self-assembled metal-organic …

Dynamic covalent synthesis

FBL Cougnon, AR Stefankiewicz, S Ulrich - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Dynamic covalent synthesis aims to precisely control the assembly of simple building blocks
linked by reversible covalent bonds to generate a single, structurally complex product. In …

Construction of Covalent Organic Cages with Aggregation‐Induced Emission Characteristics from Metallacages for Mimicking Light‐Harvesting Antenna

Y Qin, QH Ling, YT Wang, YX Hu, L Hu… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A series of covalent organic cages built from fluorophores capable of aggregation‐induced
emission (AIE) were elegantly prepared through the reduction of preorganized M2 (LA) 3 …

Anionic Templates Drive Conversion between a ZnII9L6 Tricapped Trigonal Prism and ZnII6L4 Pseudo-Octahedra

HK Liu, TK Ronson, K Wu, D Luo… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This work introduces the use of 8-aminoquinoline subcomponents to generate complex
three-dimensional structures. Together with a tris (formylpyridine), 8-aminoquinoline …

A Lantern‐Shaped Pd (II) Cage Constructed from Four Different Low‐Symmetry Ligands with Positional and Orientational Control: An Ancillary Pairings Approach

D Preston, JD Evans - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
One of the key challenges of metallo‐supramolecular chemistry is to maintain the ease of
self‐assembly but, at the same time, create structures of increasingly high levels of …

A modular strategy for the synthesis of macrocycles and medium-sized rings via cyclization/ring expansion cascade reactions

I Zalessky, JM Wootton, JKF Tam… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Macrocycles and medium-sized rings are important in many scientific fields and
technologies but are hard to make using current methods, especially on a large scale …

Hierarchically porous organic cages

M Hua, S Wang, Y Gong, J Wei, Z Yang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Imparting mesopores to organic cages of an intrinsic microporous nature to build up
hierarchically porous cage soft materials is a grand challenge and will reshape the property …

Templation and Concentration Drive Conversion Between a FeII12L12 Pseudoicosahedron, a FeII4L4 Tetrahedron, and a FeII2L3 Helicate

D Zhang, Q Gan, AJ Plajer… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report the construction of three structurally distinct self-assembled architectures:
FeII12L12 pseudoicosahedron 1, FeII2L3 helicate 2, and FeII4L4 tetrahedron 3, formed from …

Controlling the shape and chirality of an eight-crossing molecular knot

JP Carpenter, CT McTernan, JL Greenfield… - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
The knotting of biomolecules impacts their function and enables them to carry out new tasks.
Likewise, complex topologies underpin the operation of many synthetic molecular machines …

Ion-Conductive Metallo-Covalent Organic Frameworks Constructed with Tridentate Ligand and Zn Nodes

F Chen, K Zhang, Y Yuan, WP Wong… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metallo-covalent organic frameworks (metallo-COFs) are organometallic scaffolds in which
covalently bonded organic frameworks are interwoven with metal-coordinated pendant …