Unlocking the computational design of metal–organic cages

A Tarzia, KE Jelfs - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic cages are macrocyclic structures that can possess an intrinsic void that can
hold molecules for encapsulation, adsorption, sensing, and catalysis applications. As metal …

Tailoring the Asymmetric Structure of NH2‐UiO‐66 Metal‐Organic Frameworks for Light‐promoted Selective and Efficient Gold Extraction and Separation

J Cao, Z Xu, Y Chen, S Li, Y Jiang, L Bai… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Designing adsorption materials with high adsorption capacities and selectivities is highly
desirable for precious metal recovery. Desorption performance is also particularly crucial for …

Directing metallo-supramolecular assembly through complementarity

JL Algar, D Preston - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In chemistry, function and behaviour flow directly from structure. As chemists seek to develop
highly complex functional molecules, we need to harness routes to complex structures. In …

Exploiting reduced-symmetry ligands with pyridyl and imidazole donors to construct a second-generation stimuli-responsive heterobimetallic [PdPtL 4] 4+ cage

AC Pearcy, LS Lisboa, D Preston, NB Page… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A new sequential metalation strategy that enables the assembly of a new more robust
reduced symmetry heterobimetallic [PdPtL4] 4+ cage C is reported. By exploiting a low …

A Lantern‐Shaped Pd (II) Cage Constructed from Four Different Low‐Symmetry Ligands with Positional and Orientational Control: An Ancillary Pairings Approach

D Preston, JD Evans - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
One of the key challenges of metallo‐supramolecular chemistry is to maintain the ease of
self‐assembly but, at the same time, create structures of increasingly high levels of …

Structural Transformations of Metal–Organic Cages through Tetrazine-Alkene Reactivity

MR Black, S Bhattacharyya, SP Argent… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The assembly of metal–organic cages is governed by metal ion coordination preferences
and the geometries of the typically rigid and planar precursor ligands. Pd n L2 n cages are …

Diastereoselective Self‐Assembly of Low‐Symmetry PdnL2n Nanocages through Coordination‐Sphere Engineering**

P Molinska, A Tarzia, L Male, KE Jelfs… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Metal‐organic cages (MOCs) are popular host architectures assembled from ligands and
metal ions/nodes. Assembling structurally complex, low‐symmetry MOCs with anisotropic …

Orientational self-sorting in cuboctahedral Pd cages

RJ Li, A Tarzia, V Posligua, KE Jelfs, N Sanchez… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Cuboctahedral coordination cages of the general formula [Pd12L24] 24+(L= low-symmetry
ligand) were analyzed theoretically and experimentally. With 350 696 potential isomers, the …

Maximized axial helicity in a Pd 2 L 4 cage: inverse guest size-dependent compression and mesocate isomerism

WM Bloch, S Horiuchi, JJ Holstein, C Drechsler… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Helicity is an archetypal structural motif of many biological systems and provides a basis for
molecular recognition in DNA. Whilst artificial supramolecular hosts are often helical, the …

Heteroleptic tripalladium (II) cages

JA Findlay, KM Patil, MG Gardiner… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is a concerted attempt to develop self‐assembled metallo‐cages of greater structural
complexity, and heteroleptic PdII cages are emerging as prime candidates in these efforts …