Coordination/metal–organic cages inside out

T Tateishi, M Yoshimura, S Tokuda, F Matsuda… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cage-like molecules, assembled by the coordination of multiple metal ions and organic
links, are pushing new frontiers in science due to their design flexibility and the resulting …

Metallacycles, metallacages, and their aggregate/optical behavior

Y Sun, PJ Stang - Aggregate, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since the first metallacycle was prepared by Verkade in 1983, various metallacycles and
metallacages with controllable nanoscale shapes and sizes have been created by modular …

An Organo‐Palladium Host Built from a Dynamic Macrocyclic Ligand: Adaptive Self‐Assembly, Induced‐Fit Guest Binding, and Catalysis

DN Yan, LX Cai, SJ Hu, YF Zhou… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial hosts with rich conformational dynamics are attractive to supramolecular chemists
due to their adaptive guest‐binding properties and enzyme‐like catalytic functions. We …

Highly Efficient Self‐Assembly of Metallacages and Their Supramolecular Catalysis Behaviors in Microdroplets

HY Lin, LY Zhou, F Mei, WT Dou, L Hu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Developing a new strategy to improve the self‐assembly efficiency of functional assemblies
in a confined space and construct hybrid functional materials is a significant and fascinating …

Hexameric lanthanide–organic capsules with tertiary structure and emergent functions

XQ Guo, LP Zhou, SJ Hu, LX Cai… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biological macromolecules always function through a collective behavior of the aggregated
constituents, which usually are self-assembled together via noncovalent interactions …

Modulating the optical properties of BODIPY dyes by noncovalent dimerization within a flexible coordination cage

J Gemen, J Ahrens, LJW Shimon… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Aggregation of organic molecules can drastically affect their physicochemical properties. For
instance, the optical properties of BODIPY dyes are inherently related to the degree of …

Ternary host-guest complexes with rapid exchange kinetics and photoswitchable fluorescence

J Gemen, MJ Białek, M Kazes, LJW Shimon, M Feller… - Chem, 2022 - cell.com
Confinement within molecular cages can dramatically modify the physicochemical
properties of the encapsulated guest molecules, but such host-guest complexes have mainly …

Aqueous polyaromatic receptors for biomolecules with high selectivity

L Catti, R Sumida, M Yoshizawa - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Mimicking the selective binding ability of biological receptors, providing confined protein
pockets, is a long-standing challenge for synthetic chemists. Preparation of synthetic …

A Closed Cavity Strategy for Selective Dipeptide Binding by a Polyaromatic Receptor in Water

M Shuto, R Sumida, M Yuasa, T Sawada… - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Precise recognition of peptides is a daunting task owing to the substantial number of
available amino acids and their combination into various oligo/polymeric structures in …

Supramolecular Ensembles Formed via Calix [5] arene‐Fullerene Host‐Guest Interactions

T Hirao, T Haino - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This Review introduces the research directions for the synthesis of supramolecular fullerene
polymers. First, the discovery of host‐guest complexes of pristine fullerenes is briefly …