Purely covalent molecular cages and containers for guest encapsulation

G Montà-González, F Sancenón… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cage compounds offer unique binding pockets similar to enzyme-binding sites, which can
be customized in terms of size, shape, and functional groups to point toward the cavity and …

Recent trends in organic cage synthesis: push towards water-soluble organic cages

D Chakraborty, PS Mukherjee - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Research on organic cages has blossomed over the past few years into a mature field of
study which can contribute to solving some of the challenging problems. In this review we …

Potentiometric sensing

E Zdrachek, E Bakker - Analytical chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
This Review, with 200 references, describes and comments key highlights of the progress in
the field of potentiometric sensing between January 2019, the date of the last fundamental …

Emergent behavior in nanoconfined molecular containers

W Liu, JF Stoddart - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
The expression of biological functions, such as enzyme catalysis, immune response, and
cargo transport in confined nanospaces, with very different physical and chemical …

Circular dichroism based chirality sensing with supramolecular host–guest chemistry

M Quan, XY Pang, W Jiang - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Optical methods are promising to address the ever‐increasing demands for chirality analysis
in drug discovery and related fields because they are amenable to high‐throughput …

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 …

Geminiarene: molecular scale dual selectivity for chlorobenzene and chlorocyclohexane fractionation

JR Wu, YW Yang - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this work, a new version of macrocyclic arenes, namely geminiarene, has been designed
and synthesized for guest complexation and chlorobenzene/chlorocyclohexane mixture …

Host–Guest Recognition and Fluorescence of a Tetraphenylethene‐Based Octacationic Cage

H Duan, Y Li, Q Li, P Wang, X Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We report the synthesis and characterization of a three‐dimensional tetraphenylethene‐
based octacationic cage that shows host–guest recognition of polycyclic aromatic …

A double-walled knotted cage for guest-adaptive molecular recognition

Y Tamura, H Takezawa, M Fujita - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We synthesized a double-walled knotted cage from a flexible tripodal ligand. The
characteristic double-walled structure provided a unique adaptive behavior of the cavity …

A cavity‐tailored metal‐organic cage entraps gases selectively in solution and the amorphous solid state

JL Zhu, D Zhang, TK Ronson, W Wang, L Xu… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Here we report the subcomponent self‐assembly of a truxene‐faced Zn4L4 tetrahedron,
which is capable of binding the smallest hydrocarbons in solution. By deliberately …