Supramolecular coordination cages for artificial photosynthesis and synthetic photocatalysis

R Ham, CJ Nielsen, S Pullen, JNH Reek - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Because sunlight is the most abundant energy source on earth, it has huge potential for
practical applications ranging from sustainable energy supply to light driven chemistry. From …

Recent advances and perspectives on supramolecular radical cages

B Huang, L Mao, X Shi, HB Yang - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular radical chemistry has been emerging as a cutting-edge interdisciplinary
field of traditional supramolecular chemistry and radical chemistry in recent years. The …

Design and assembly of a chiral metallosalen‐based octahedral coordination cage for supramolecular asymmetric catalysis

C Tan, J Jiao, Z Li, Y Liu, X Han… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular containers featuring both high catalytic activity and high enantioselectivity
represent a design challenge of practical importance. Herein, it is demonstrated that a chiral …

Catalysis in a cationic coordination cage using a cavity-bound guest and surface-bound anions: Inhibition, activation, and autocatalysis

W Cullen, AJ Metherell, AB Wragg… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The Kemp elimination (reaction of benzisoxazole with base to give 2-cyanophenolate) is
catalyzed in the cavity of a cubic M8L12 coordination cage because of a combination of (i) …

Host–guest-induced electron transfer triggers radical-cation catalysis

RL Spicer, AD Stergiou, TA Young… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Modifying the reactivity of substrates by encapsulation is a fundamental principle of capsule
catalysis. Here we show an alternative strategy, wherein catalytic activation of otherwise …

Bright Fluorescence and Host–Guest Sensing with a Nanoscale M4L6 Tetrahedron Accessed by Self‐Assembly of Zinc–Imine Chelate Vertices and Perylene …

PD Frischmann, V Kunz, F Würthner - Angewandte Chemie, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A highly luminescent Zn4L6 tetrahedron is reported with 3.8 nm perylene bisimide edges
and hexadentate ZnII–imine chelate vertices. Replacing FeII and monoamines commonly …

Catalytic properties of chemical transformation within the confined pockets of Werner-type capsules

L Zhao, X Jing, X Li, X Guo, L Zeng, C He… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of small molecules with defined cavities that catalyze unique chemical
transformations to emulate enzyme sites have resulted in sustainable catalytic …

Designing a polyoxometalate-incorporated metal–organic framework for reduction of nitroarenes to anilines by sequential proton-coupled electron transfers

C Si, F Liu, X Yan, J Xu, G Niu, Q Han - Inorganic Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Developing new photocatalysts for reduction of nitroarenes to anilines under mild conditions
is very significant. Herein, a new polyoxometalate-based metal–organic framework …

Photocatalysis in supramolecular fluorescent metallacycles and metallacages

HY Lin, LY Zhou, L Xu - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The utilization of photocatalytic techniques for achieving light‐to‐fuel conversion is a
promising way to ease the shortage of energy and degradation of the ecological …

Host–Guest-Interaction Enhanced Nitric Oxide Photo-Generation within a Pillar [5] arene Cavity for Antibacterial Gas Therapy

H Wang, Y Wang, W Xu, H Zhang, J Lv… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular macrocycles with intrinsic cavities have been widely explored as containers
to fabricate versatile functional materials via specific host–guest recognitions. However …