Metallosupramolecular cages: from design principles and characterisation techniques to applications

AJ McConnell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Although metallosupramolecular cages are self-assembled from seemingly simple building
blocks, metal ions and organic ligands, architectures of increasingly large size and …

Coordination-directed construction of molecular links

WX Gao, HJ Feng, BB Guo, Y Lu, GX Jin - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Since the emergence of the concept of chemical topology, interlocked molecular assemblies
have graduated from academic curiosities and poorly defined species to become synthetic …

Linkage conversions in single-crystalline covalent organic frameworks

B Yu, RB Lin, G Xu, ZH Fu, H Wu, W Zhou, S Lu… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction is a powerful characterization technique that enables the
determination of atomic arrangements in crystalline materials. Growing or retaining large …

Free-standing homochiral 2D monolayers by exfoliation of molecular crystals

J Dong, L Liu, C Tan, Q Xu, J Zhang, Z Qiao, D Chu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Two-dimensional materials with monolayer thickness and extreme aspect ratios are sought
for their high surface areas and unusual physicochemical properties. Liquid exfoliation is a …

Water-soluble self-assembled cage with triangular metal–metal-bonded units enabling the sequential selective separation of alkanes and isomeric molecules

LJ Wang, S Bai, YF Han - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The selective separation of structurally similar aliphatic/aromatic hydrocarbons is an
essential goal in industrial processes. In this study, we report the synthesis of a water …

Supramolecular chirality in metal–organic complexes

J Dong, Y Liu, Y Cui - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chirality is a pervasive structural feature of nature and crucial to the
organization and function of nearly all biological systems. At the molecular level, the biased …

Multi-stimuli control over assembly and guest binding in metallo-supramolecular hosts based on dithienylethene photoswitches

RJ Li, J Tessarolo, H Lee… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
It is difficult to assemble multi-component metallo-supramolecular architectures in a non-
statistical fashion, which limits their development toward functional materials. Herein, we …

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 …

Homochiral porous metal–organic polyhedra with multiple kinds of vertices

X Tang, C Meng, N Rampal, A Li, X Chen… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metal–organic polyhedra featuring non-Archimedean/Platonic architectures with multiple
kinds of vertices have aroused great attention for their fascinating structures and properties …

Encapsulating semiconductor quantum dots in supramolecular cages enables ultrafast guest–host electron and vibrational energy transfer

S Lu, DJ Morrow, Z Li, C Guo, X Yu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the field of supramolecular chemistry, host–guest systems have been extensively
explored to encapsulate a wide range of substrates, owing to emerging functionalities in …