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 …

Drug delivery by supramolecular design

MJ Webber, R Langer - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The rational design of drug delivery approaches leveraging supramolecular chemistry
(ie,“chemistry beyond the molecule”) has garnered significant interest in recent years toward …

[HTML][HTML] Cucurbiturils: from synthesis to high-affinity binding and catalysis

KI Assaf, WM Nau - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In the wide area of supramolecular chemistry, cucurbit [n] urils (CBn) present themselves as
a young family of molecular containers, able to form stable complexes with various guests …

Development of pseudorotaxanes and rotaxanes: from synthesis to stimuli-responsive motions to applications

M Xue, Y Yang, X Chi, X Yan, F Huang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The history of isomeric types of organic molecules has passed through several important
stages:(1) Molecules that differ from each other with different numbers and types of atoms;(2) …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of cucurbiturils in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

D Das, KI Assaf, WM Nau - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The supramolecular chemistry of cucurbit [n] urils (CB n) has been rapidly developing to
encompass diverse medicinal applications, including drug formulation and delivery …

Fluorescent dyes and their supramolecular host/guest complexes with macrocycles in aqueous solution

RN Dsouza, U Pischel, WM Nau - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
The fluorescence of organic molecules depends sensitively on their environment.
Fluorescent dyes have accordingly become popular molecular probes not only to determine …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrophobic ion pairing: encapsulating small molecules, peptides, and proteins into nanocarriers

KD Ristroph, RK Prud'homme - Nanoscale advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrophobic ion pairing has emerged as a method to modulate the solubility of charged
hydrophilic molecules ranging in class from small molecules to large enzymes. Charged …

Cucurbituril chemistry: a tale of supramolecular success

E Masson, X Ling, R Joseph, L Kyeremeh-Mensah… - Rsc Advances, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This review highlights the past six year advances in the blossoming field of cucurbit [n] uril
chemistry. Because of their exceptional recognition properties in aqueous medium, these …

Facile cucurbit [8] uril-based supramolecular approach to fabricate tunable luminescent materials in aqueous solution

XL Ni, S Chen, Y Yang, Z Tao - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Light-emitting materials with tunable properties may offer fascinating applications in
optoelectronic devices, fluorescent sensors, and imaging agents. Herein, a new …

Deep inside cucurbiturils: physical properties and volumes of their inner cavity determine the hydrophobic driving force for host–guest complexation

WM Nau, M Florea, KI Assaf - Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Cucurbit [n] urils (CBn) bind guest molecules through a combination of electrostatic
interactions with the carbonyl rims and hydrophobic interactions with the inner cavity …