Porous organic cages (POCs) are a relatively new class of low-density crystalline materials
that have emerged as a versatile platform for investigating molecular recognition, gas …

The employment of weak intermolecular interactions in supramolecular chemistry offers an
alternative approach to project artificial chemical environments like the active sites of …

Mechanical interlocking of molecules (catenation) is a nontrivial challenge in modern
synthetic chemistry and materials science,. One strategy to achieve catenation is the design …

In biological systems, enzymes and transport proteins can bind anions in aqueous media
solely by forming hydrogen bonds with charge-neutral motifs. Reproducing this functionality …

Viologens, functional organic materials composed of conjugated bi-/multi-pyridyl groups,
have attracted much attention for decades owing to their properties such as unique …

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 …

Although chiral mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) have been synthesised and
studied, enantiopure examples are relatively under-represented in the pantheon of reported …

Although interlocked three-dimensional molecules display unique properties associated
with their spatial structures, their synthesis and study of their host–guest properties remain …

Imine condensation has been known to chemists for more than a century and is used
extensively to synthesize large organic cages of defined shapes and sizes. Surprisingly, in …

Chiral cage compounds are mainly constructed from chiral precursors or based on the
symmetry breaking during coordination-driven self-assembly. Herein, we present a strategy …