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 …

Picking the lock of coordination cage catalysis

TK Piskorz, V Martí-Centelles, RL Spicer, F Duarte… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The design principles of metallo-organic assembly reactions have facilitated access to
hundreds of coordination cages of varying size and shape. Many of these assemblies …

Self-assembled metallacage with second near-infrared aggregation-induced emission for enhanced multimodal theranostics

Y Qin, X Chen, Y Gui, H Wang, BZ Tang… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The construction of supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs) featuring prominent
cancer theranostic functions is an appealing yet significantly challenging task. In this study …

Heterometallic cages: synthesis and applications

LK Moree, LAV Faulkner, JD Crowley - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
High symmetry metallosupramolecular architectures (MSAs) have been exploited for a
range of applications including molecular recognition, catalysis and drug delivery. Recently …

Endohedral functionalization of chiral metal-organic cages for encapsulating achiral dyes to induce circularly polarized luminescence

X Tang, H Jiang, Y Si, N Rampal, W Gong, C Cheng… - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) is useful for 3D optical imaging and optical storage,
but it remains a big challenge to prepare chiral compounds with both strong emission and …

Selective separation of light rare-earth elements by supramolecular encapsulation and precipitation

JG O'Connell-Danes, BT Ngwenya… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Supramolecular chemical strategies for Rare Earth (RE) element separations are emerging
which amplify the small changes in properties across the series to bias selectivity in …

Recent progress in metal-organic cages for biomedical application: Highlighted research during 2018–2023

YP Wang, Y Zhang, XH Duan, JJ Mao, M Pan… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Metal-organic cages (MOCs) are a class of widely used nanosize supramolecular
architectures with specific geometric shapes and confined cavities, constructed from the …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments of supramolecular metal-based structures for applications in cancer therapy and imaging

A Pöthig, A Casini - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The biomedical application of discrete supramolecular metal-based structures, including
supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs), is still an emergent field of study. However …

Self-Assembly of Enantiopure Pd12 Tetrahedral Homochiral Nanocages with Tetrazole Linkers and Chiral Recognition

P Howlader, E Zangrando… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Enantiopure acceptors (R, R) M and (S, S) M [where M=(N 1, N 1, N 2, N 2-
tetramethylcyclohexane-1, 2-diamine) Pd (NO3) 2] have been used to design enantiopure …

Metal‐Organic Frameworks and Metal‐Organic Cages–A Perspective

BS Pilgrim, NR Champness - ChemPlusChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The fields of metal‐organic cages (MOCs) and metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) are both
highly topical and continue to develop at a rapid pace. Despite clear synergies between the …