Fascination with supramolecular chemistry over the past few decades has led to the
synthesis of an ever-increasing number of elegant and intricate functional structures with …

A look at the elegance and efficiency of biological machines readily reveals that Nature
masters the full gamut of chemical interactions to compose masterpieces of the living world …

Supramolecular chemistry, defined as “chemistry outside a molecule”, is at the heart of the
development of chemistry of complex systems, molecular devices, ensembles, and …

Since the first synthesis of cryptands and cavitands, molecular cages defined as hollow
structures enclosing a three-dimensional cavity have experienced a large development in …

The controlled fabrication of nanometer-scale objects is without doubt one of the central
issues in current science and technology. However, existing fabrication techniques suffer …

The understanding of multi-component mixtures of self-assembling molecules under
thermodynamic equilibrium can only be advanced by a combined experimental and …

Cooperativity is a key mechanism that regulates the behavior of complex molecular systems
in biology and supramolecular chemistry.[1, 2] There are, however, some basic issues …

In recent years there has been immense interest in metallo-supramolecular architectures
and their functional properties. The incorporation of metal centers into supramolecules …

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Germany Page 2 - S1 - Enhanced π-Conjugation around a Porphyrin[6] Nanoring Markus …

Three dimensional (3D) supramolecules with giant cavities are attractive due to their wide
range of applications. Herein, we used pentatopic terpyridine ligands with three types of …