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 …

Since the emergence of the concept of chemical topology, interlocked molecular assemblies
have graduated from academic curiosities and poorly defined species to become synthetic …

Chemistry, pure and applied, is a science and an industry. By its power over the expressions
of matter, it also displays the creativity of art. It has expanded from molecular to …

Herein, we report a de novo design of a phenazine-based Pd 2 L 4 cage receptor capable of
binding a series of anions with extremely high affinity. The main core of our molecular …

Investigating the self-assembly and self-sorting behaviour of dynamic covalent organic
architectures makes possible the parallel generation of multiple discrete products in a single …

Control over the integrative self‐sorting of metallo‐supramolecular assemblies opens up
possibilities for introducing increased complexity and function into a single self‐assembled …

Interlocked molecules possess properties and functions that depend upon their intricate
connectivity. In addition to the topologically trivial rotaxanes, whose structures may be …

Despite significant progress achieved in artificial self-sorting in solution, operating self-
sorting in the body remains a considerable challenge. Here, we report an in vivo self-sorting …

The preparation of topologically nontrivial molecules is often assisted by covalent,
supramolecular or coordinative templates that provide spatial pre-organization for all …

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 …