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 …

Historically, the interlacing of strands at the molecular level has mainly been limited to
coordination polymers and DNA. Despite being proposed on a number of occasions, the …

Chiral luminescent lanthanide–organic cages have many potential applications in
enantioselective recognition, sensing, and asymmetric catalysis. However, due to the …

A variety of organometallic supramolecular architectures have been constructed over the
past decades and their properties were also explored via different strategies. However, the …

Metal–organic polyhedra featuring non-Archimedean/Platonic architectures with multiple
kinds of vertices have aroused great attention for their fascinating structures and properties …

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 …

Although mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) display unique properties and
functions associated with their intricate connectivity, limited assembly strategies are …

Catenanes—molecules comprising two interlocking rings held together like links in a chain—
are topologically non-trivial: a catenane is a topological isomer of its separated rings, but the …

The field of metallosupramolecular chemistry has advanced rapidly in recent years. Much
work in this area has focused on the formation of hollow self-assembled metal-organic …

Molecular knots are often prepared using metal helicates to cross the strands. We found that
coordinatively mismatching oligodentate ligands and metal ions provides a more effective …