Increasing structural and functional complexity in self-assembled coordination cages

S Pullen, J Tessarolo, GH Clever - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Progress in metallo-supramolecular chemistry creates potential to synthesize functional
nano systems and intelligent materials of increasing complexity. In the past four decades …

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 …

Transformation networks of metal–organic cages controlled by chemical stimuli

E Benchimol, BNT Nguyen, TK Ronson… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The flexibility of biomolecules enables them to adapt and transform as a result of signals
received from the external environment, expressing different functions in different contexts …

Light-powered dissipative assembly of diazocine coordination cages

H Lee, J Tessarolo, D Langbehn, A Baksi… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Stimuli-responsive coordination cages allow reversible control over guest binding and
release, relevant for adaptive receptors, carriers, catalysts, and complex systems. Light …

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 …

The chemistry of multi-component and hierarchical framework compounds

L Feng, KY Wang, GS Day, HC Zhou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Multi-component hierarchically porous materials are an emerging class of materials with
tailored compositions, tunable distribution and sophisticated applications. An increasing …

Supramolecular transformations within discrete coordination-driven supramolecular architectures

W Wang, YX Wang, HB Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, a comprehensive summary of supramolecular transformations within discrete
coordination-driven supramolecular architectures, including helices, metallacycles …

Catenanes: fifty years of molecular links

G Gil‐Ramírez, DA Leigh… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Half a century after Schill and Lüttringhaus carried out the first directed synthesis of a [2]
catenane, a plethora of strategies now exist for the construction of molecular Hopf links …

Chirality in rotaxanes and catenanes

EMG Jamieson, F Modicom, SM Goldup - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Although chiral mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) have been synthesised and
studied, enantiopure examples are relatively under-represented in the pantheon of reported …

Cation–Anion Arrangement Patterns in Self-Assembled Pd2L4 and Pd4L8 Coordination Cages

GH Clever, P Punt - Accounts of chemical research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Compounds featuring one-dimensional regular arrangements of stacked metal
complexes and alternating [cation–anion]∞ sequences have raised considerable interest …