Design and applications of water-soluble coordination cages

EG Percástegui, TK Ronson, JR Nitschke - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Compartmentalization of the aqueous space within a cell is necessary for life. In similar
fashion to the nanometer-scale compartments in living systems, synthetic water-soluble …

Color‐Tunable Supramolecular Luminescent Materials

Y Wang, H Wu, W Hu, JF Stoddart - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Constructing multicolor photoluminescent materials with tunable properties is an attractive
research objective on account of their abundant applications in materials science and …

Independent gradient model based on Hirshfeld partition: A new method for visual study of interactions in chemical systems

T Lu, Q Chen - Journal of computational chemistry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The powerful independent gradient model (IGM) method has been increasingly popular in
visual analysis of intramolecular and intermolecular interactions in recent years. However …

Counteranion-mediated efficient iodine capture in a hexacationic imidazolium organic cage enabled by multiple non-covalent interactions

J Yang, SJ Hu, LX Cai, LP Zhou, QF Sun - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Develo** efficient adsorbents to capture radioactive iodine produced from nuclear wastes
is highly desired. Here we report the facial synthesis of a hexacationic imidazolium organic …

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 …

Molecular recognition of cyclophanes in water

FY Chen, WC Geng, K Cai, DS Guo - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Molecular recognition in water, the biological solvent, always receives significant research
focus in supramolecular chemistry. The mechanisms of molecular recognition in water is key …

Circularly polarized luminescence of tetradentate-ligand-based chiral MOFs: structural evidence of chirality inversion

HR Fu, DD Ren, K Zhang, RY Zhang, XY Lu… - ACS Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chirality inversion modulation is of great importance in the preparation of chiroptical
materials. The rational use of the stoichiometry of mixed ligands in chiral metal–organic …

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 …

Recent trends in organic cage synthesis: push towards water-soluble organic cages

D Chakraborty, PS Mukherjee - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Porphyrin-based multicomponent metallacage: host–guest complexation toward photooxidation-triggered reversible encapsulation and release

Z Zhang, L Ma, F Fang, Y Hou, C Lu, C Mu, Y Zhang… - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of supramolecular hosts with effective host–guest properties is crucial for
their applications. Herein, we report the preparation of a porphyrin-based metallacage …