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 …

Mesoionic carbenes are a subclass of the family of N-heterocyclic carbenes that generally
feature less heteroatom stabilization of the carbenic carbon and hence impart specific donor …

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

Chirality is a basic characteristic of living matter and nature. During the evolution of life on
our planet, nature has favored one kind of chirality, thereby selecting the l-amino acids (with …

Within living systems, molecular-scale responses to stimuli flow together into the intricate
and robust signal transduction networks that process information for an organism. Studies of …

Two major energy-related problems confront the world in the next 50 years. First, increased
worldwide competition for gradually depleting fossil fuel reserves (derived from past …

In 1893, Alfred Werner described the structure of octahedral transition metal complexes and
provided the basis for assigning coordination number and oxidation state to what were then …

Over the last decade molecular containers have been increasingly studied within the context
of complex chemical systems. Herein we discuss selected examples from the literature …

Transformations within container-molecules provide a good alternative between traditional
homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, as the containers themselves can be regarded …

This review provides a general overview of the development of fluorescent chemosensors
based on closed three-dimensional architectures and highlights selected examples from …