The nature of the mechanical bond: from molecules to machines

CJ Bruns, JF Stoddart - 2016 - books.google.com
" The story is told by THE inventor-pioneer-master in the field and is accompanied by
amazing illustrations...[it] will become an absolute reference and a best seller in chemistry!" …

Disulfide exchange: exposing supramolecular reactivity through dynamic covalent chemistry

SP Black, JKM Sanders… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A Tutorial Review of the subtle supramolecular interactions influencing the outcomes of
equilibrating systems, focusing on the dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) of disulfide …

Dynamic combinatorial/covalent chemistry: a tool to read, generate and modulate the bioactivity of compounds and compound mixtures

A Herrmann - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Reversible covalent bond formation under thermodynamic control adds reactivity to self-
assembled supramolecular systems, and is therefore an ideal tool to assess complexity of …

Dynamic combinatorial libraries: from exploring molecular recognition to systems chemistry

J Li, P Nowak, S Otto - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013 - ACS Publications
Dynamic combinatorial chemistry (DCC) is a subset of combinatorial chemistry where the
library members interconvert continuously by exchanging building blocks with each other …

Dynamic covalent synthesis

FBL Cougnon, AR Stefankiewicz, S Ulrich - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Dynamic covalent synthesis aims to precisely control the assembly of simple building blocks
linked by reversible covalent bonds to generate a single, structurally complex product. In …

The sharp structural switch of covalent cages mediated by subtle variation of directing groups

Q Chen, Z Li, Y Lei, Y Chen, H Tang, G Wu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
It is considered a more formidable task to precisely control the self-assembled products
containing purely covalent components, due to a lack of intrinsic templates such as transition …

Progress in the synthesis and exploitation of catenanes since the Millennium

NH Evans, PD Beer - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Catenanes–molecules consisting of interlocked macrocyclic rings–have been prepared by
templation strategies for some thirty years. The utilization of CuI cation, aromatic donor …

Homochiral and meso Figure Eight Knots and a Solomon Link

N Ponnuswamy, FBL Cougnon… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A homochiral naphthalenediimide-based building block forms in water a disulfide library of
macrocycles containing topological isomers. We attempted to identify each of these isomers …

Stacking interactions induced selective conformation of discrete aromatic arrays and Borromean rings

L Zhang, L Lin, D Liu, YJ Lin, ZH Li… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Herein, we describe how to utilize stacking interactions to achieve selective supramolecular
transformation and molecular Borromean rings (BRs). By using a dinuclear …

Dynamic Covalent Chemistry for Synthesis and Co‐conformational Control of Mechanically Interlocked Molecules

J Yu, M Gaedke… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanically interlocked molecules have found extensive applications in areas all across
the physical sciences, from materials to catalysis and sensing. However, introducing …