The story of the little blue box: a tribute to Siegfried Hünig

XY Chen, H Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The tetracationic cyclophane, cyclobis (paraquat‐p‐phenylene), also known as the little blue
box, constitutes a modular receptor that has facilitated the discovery of many host–guest …

Radical-pairing-induced molecular assembly and motion

K Cai, L Zhang, RD Astumian, JF Stoddart - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Radical-pairing interactions between conjugated organic π-radicals are relative newcomers
to the inventory of molecular recognition motifs explored in supramolecular chemistry. The …

Self-Assembly and photothermal conversion of metallarussian doll and metalla [2] catenanes induced via multiple stacking interactions

T Chen, Y Zhao, LL Dang, TT Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A variety of organometallic supramolecular architectures have been constructed over the
past decades and their properties were also explored via different strategies. However, the …

Electron-catalysed molecular recognition

Y Jiao, Y Qiu, L Zhang, WG Liu, H Mao, H Chen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Molecular recognition,,–and supramolecular assembly,,–cover a broad spectrum,–of non-
covalently orchestrated phenomena between molecules. Catalysis of such processes …

Emergent behavior in nanoconfined molecular containers

W Liu, JF Stoddart - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
The expression of biological functions, such as enzyme catalysis, immune response, and
cargo transport in confined nanospaces, with very different physical and chemical …

Synthesis of planet‐like liquid metal nanodroplets with promising properties for catalysis

CJ Parker, V Krishnamurthi, K Zuraiqi… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid metal nanodroplets are an emerging class of underexplored materials with significant
potential in many applications, including catalysis, bio‐therapeutics, and phase‐change …

Chiral carbon nanorings: synthesis, properties and hierarchical self‐assembly of chiral ternary complexes featuring a narcissistic chiral self‐recognition for chiral …

Y Fan, J He, L Liu, G Liu, S Guo, Z Lian, X Li… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report the synthesis and chiroptical properties of novel chiral carbon nanorings Sp‐/Rp‐
[12] PCPP containing a planar chiral [2.2] PCP unit, and demonstrate that Sp‐/Rp‐[12] PCPP …

Encapsulating semiconductor quantum dots in supramolecular cages enables ultrafast guest–host electron and vibrational energy transfer

S Lu, DJ Morrow, Z Li, C Guo, X Yu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the field of supramolecular chemistry, host–guest systems have been extensively
explored to encapsulate a wide range of substrates, owing to emerging functionalities in …

[n]Cycloparaphenylene‐Pillar[5]arene Bismacrocycles: Their Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Multiple Guest Recognition Properties

Y Xu, F Steudel, MY Leung, B Xia… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Both pillar [n] arenes (P [n] As) and [n] cycloparaphenylenes ([n] CPPs) play an important
role in supramolecular chemistry. Herein, we report the precise synthesis of two …

A three-shell supramolecular complex enables the symmetry-mismatched chemo- and regioselective bis-functionalization of C60

E Ubasart, O Borodin, C Fuertes-Espinosa, Y Xu… - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular Russian dolls (matryoshkas) have proven useful for testing the limits of
preparative supramolecular chemistry but applications of these architectures to problems in …