Visible-to-NIR-light activated release: from small molecules to nanomaterials

R Weinstain, T Slanina, D Kand, P Klan - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photoactivatable (alternatively, photoremovable, photoreleasable, or photocleavable)
protecting groups (PPGs), also known as caged or photocaged compounds, are used to …

Purely covalent molecular cages and containers for guest encapsulation

G Montà-González, F Sancenón… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cage compounds offer unique binding pockets similar to enzyme-binding sites, which can
be customized in terms of size, shape, and functional groups to point toward the cavity and …

Photoresponsive host–guest functional systems

DH Qu, QC Wang, QW Zhang, X Ma, H Tian - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular chemistry mainly focuses on the chemical systems assembled by a discrete
number of molecular components through weak and reversible noncovalent interactions …

Pillar [6] arene-based photoresponsive host–guest complexation

G Yu, C Han, Z Zhang, J Chen, X Yan… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The trans form of an azobenzene-containing guest can complex with a pillar [6] arene, while
it cannot complex with pillar [5] arenes due to the different cavity sizes of the pillar [6] arene …

Stimuli-responsive host–guest systems based on the recognition of cryptands by organic guests

M Zhang, X Yan, F Huang, Z Niu… - Accounts of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus As the star compounds in host–guest chemistry, the syntheses of crown ethers
proclaimed the birth of supramolecular chemistry. Crown ether-based host–guest systems …

Photoswitchable molecular tweezers: isomerization to control substrate binding, and what about vice versa?

SJ Wezenberg - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The linkage of two identical binding motifs by a molecular photoswitch has proven to be a
straightforward and versatile strategy to control substrate binding affinity by light. Stimulus …

Controlled binding of organic guests by stimuli-responsive macrocycles

A Blanco-Gómez, P Cortón, L Barravecchia… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthetic supramolecular chemistry pursues not only the construction of new matter, but also
control over its inherently dynamic behaviour. In this context, classic host–guest chemistry …

A cationic water-soluble pillar [5] arene: synthesis and host–guest complexation with sodium 1-octanesulfonate

Y Ma, X Ji, F **ang, X Chi, C Han, J He… - Chemical …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
A cationic water-soluble pillar[5]arene: synthesis and host–guest complexation with sodium
1-octanesulfonate - Chemical Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C1CC15660H …

Supramolecular chemistry: Host–guest molecular complexes

SB Khan, SL Lee - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent times, researchers have emphasized practical approaches for capturing
coordinated and selective guest entrap. The physisorbed nanoporous supramolecular …

Azobenzene isomerization in condensed matter: lessons for the design of efficient light-responsive soft-matter systems

LW Giles, CFJ Faul, RF Tabor - Materials Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Azobenzene-based materials have found applications in a wide variety of systems as a
convenient method to induce photo-responsive behaviour through facile trans (E) to cis (Z) …