Entangling strands in a well-ordered manner can produce useful effects, from shoelaces and
fishing nets to brown paper packages tied up with strings. At the nanoscale, non-crystalline …

Conspectus This Account is about templates as construction tools: molecules for making
molecules. A template organizes the reactants and provides information to promote …

We propose a novel, special purpose semiempirical tight binding (TB) method for the
calculation of structures, vibrational frequencies, and noncovalent interactions of large …

Phenanthracene nanotubes with arylene-ethynylene-butadiynylene rims and
phenanthracene walls are synthesized in a modular bottom-up approach. One of the rims …

Over one century after its discovery, pyrylium salt chemistry has been extensively applied in
preparing light emitters, photocatalysts, and sensitizers. In most of these studies, pyrylium …

Oligo (arylene ethynylene)(OAE) derivatives are the “workhorse” molecules of molecular
electronics. Their ease of synthesis and flexibility of functionalisation mean that a diverse …

Conspectus The holy grail identified by Orgel in his 1995 Account was the development of
novel chemical systems that evolve using reactions in which replication and information …

Template-directed synthesis has become a powerful methodology to access complex
molecules. Noncovalent templating has been widely used in the last few decades, but less …

Abstract “Improbable” rotaxanes consisting of interlocked conjugated components represent
non‐trivial synthetic targets, not to mention those with all‐benzene scaffolds. Herein, a …

Interest in macromolecules has increased because of their functional properties, which can
be tuned using precise organic synthetic methods. For example, desired functions have …