Compartmentalization in the biological world brings excellent efficiency and specificity to the
formation of complex compounds, inspiring supramolecular chemists to continuously search …

Chiral supramolecular polymers were constructed through the host-guest complexation of
an octaphosphonate biscavitand and a chiral diammonium guest. Isothermal titration …

The past three decades have witnessed extraordinary advances in the preparation of
macrocycles from a resorcinarene platform. Bridging two or more resorcinarene units …

A brand-new self-folding biscavitand was synthesized from a feet-to-feet-connected
bisresorcinarene. The X-ray crystal structure of the biscaivtand showed that the two cavities …

It is shown that the performance of allosteric systems regarding the efficiency and the speed
of response depends critically on the strain energy of the equilibrating conformers and of the …

X-ray crystallography of an acetoxy-protected bisresorcinarene and biscavitands possessing
phosphonate and dialkylsilyl bridges revealed that the bisresorcinarene and the …

Bisresorcinarenes 1a–d were obtained in excellent yields, and 1e was finally obtained in
50% yield. X-ray diffraction analysis showed that 1a and 1b adopted helical conformations …

A new rotamer-based strategy for negative allostery has been used to control host–host
interactions and product yield upon anion complexation. Coassembly of anion dimers as …

Octaphosphonate biscavitand and self-folding deep biscavitand show strong positive and
negative cooperativity, respectively. The mechanism of the cooperativity is discussed in …

The polystyrene chains were installed at the lower rim of a resorcinarene-based cavitand via
reversible addition–fragmentation (RAFT) polymerization to form a four-armed star-shaped …