Entangling strands in a well-ordered manner can produce useful effects, from shoelaces and
fishing nets to brown paper packages tied up with strings. At the nanoscale, non-crystalline …

Research on organic cages has blossomed over the past few years into a mature field of
study which can contribute to solving some of the challenging problems. In this review we …

Dynamic covalent synthesis aims to precisely control the assembly of simple building blocks
linked by reversible covalent bonds to generate a single, structurally complex product. In …

Self‐assembly by imine condensation in aqueous media is a formidable task because of the
labile nature of imines in the presence of water. Here, by taking advantage of multivalence …

Self‐assembly of host molecules in aqueous media via metal–ligand coordination is well
developed. However, the preparation of purely covalent counterparts in water has remained …

Conspectus Compared to traditionally used irreversible chemical reactions, dynamic
covalent chemistry (DCC) including imine formation represents a more advanced technique …

We demonstrated that a purely organic stack, namely, TPE-3-stack, can be assembled in
high yield by using dynamic imine chemistry. TPE-3-stack emits strong fluorescence not only …

Achiral [2] catenanes composed of rings with inequivalent sides may adopt chiral co-
conformations. Their stereochemistry depends on the relative orientation of the interlocked …

From being an aesthetic molecular object to a building block for the construction of
molecular machines, catenanes and related mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) …

Selective anion recognition remains a key challenge in supramolecular chemistry: only a
very small number of systems that can function in water are known, and these nearly always …