Design and applications of water-soluble coordination cages

EG Percástegui, TK Ronson, JR Nitschke - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Compartmentalization of the aqueous space within a cell is necessary for life. In similar
fashion to the nanometer-scale compartments in living systems, synthetic water-soluble …

Metal–organic cages for molecular separations

D Zhang, TK Ronson, YQ Zou, JR Nitschke - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Separation technology is central to industries as diverse as petroleum, pharmaceuticals,
mining and life sciences. Metal–organic cages, a class of molecular containers formed via …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Separation of benzene and toluene associated with vapochromic behaviors by hybrid [4] arene-based co-crystals

J Chen, W Zhang, W Yang, F Xi, H He, M Liang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The combination of macrocyclic chemistry with co-crystal engineering has promoted the
development of materials with vapochromic behaviors in supramolecular science. Herein …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular engineering of confined space in metal–organic cages

JEM Lewis - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic cages (MOCs) have become an intensely studied class of abiotic host
molecules. This is due to the ability to generate a myriad of polyhedral architectures from …

Homochiral dodecanuclear lanthanide “cage in cage” for enantioselective separation

C Zhu, H Tang, K Yang, Y Fang, KY Wang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
It is extremely difficult to anticipate the structure and the stereochemistry of a complex,
particularly when the ligand is flexible and the metal node adopts diverse coordination …

A Redox-Active Supramolecular Fe4L6 Cage Based on Organic Vertices with Acid–Base-Dependent Charge Tunability for Dehydrogenation Catalysis

YL Lu, JQ Song, YH Qin, J Guo, YH Huang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular cage chemistry is of lasting interest because, as artificial blueprints of
natural enzymes, the self-assembled cage structures not only provide substrate-hosting …

Coordination-assembled water-soluble anionic lanthanide organic polyhedra for luminescent labeling and magnetic resonance imaging

Z Wang, L He, B Liu, LP Zhou, LX Cai… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide-containing functional complexes have found a variety of applications in
materials science and biomedicine because of their unique electroptical and magnetic …

Pseudo‐heterolepticity in Low‐Symmetry Metal‐Organic Cages

JEM Lewis - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Heteroleptic metal‐organic cages, formed through integrative self‐assembly of ligand
mixtures, are highly attractive as reduced symmetry supramolecular hosts. Ensuring high …

Porphyrin-based multicomponent metallacage: host–guest complexation toward photooxidation-triggered reversible encapsulation and release

Z Zhang, L Ma, F Fang, Y Hou, C Lu, C Mu, Y Zhang… - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of supramolecular hosts with effective host–guest properties is crucial for
their applications. Herein, we report the preparation of a porphyrin-based metallacage …