To a large extent, the field of “molecular machines” started after several groups were able to
prepare, reasonably easily, interlocking ring compounds (named catenanes for compounds …

Organic materials have recently gained considerable attention for electronic applications,
improving performance and sustainability to current technologies. Commercialized metal …

Aiming at the construction of novel circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) switches with
multiple switchable emission states and high dissymmetry factors (glum), topologically chiral …

“When we get to the very, very small world… we have a lot of new things that would happen
that represent completely new opportunities for design… At the atomic level we have new …

Mechanically interlocked molecules based on oligoparaphenylene‐derived nanohoops,
particularly those without heteroatoms, are synthetically challenging and topologically …

Mechanically interlocked structures are fascinating synthetic targets and the topological
complexity achieved through catenation offers numerous possibilities for the construction of …

This Review covers design strategies, synthetic challenges, host–guest chemistry, and
functional properties of interlocked supramolecular cages. Some dynamic covalent organic …

Here is reported the synthesis and characterization of an interlocked figure‐of‐eight
rotaxane molecular shuttle from a dibenzo‐24‐crown‐8 (DB24C8) derivative. This latter …

The development of molecular machines requires new building blocks which are easy to
characterize and visualize to realize a complexity comparable to their natural counterparts …

Rotaxanes and molecular knots exhibit particular properties resulting from the presence of a
mechanical bond within their structure that maintains the molecular components interlocked …