Recent developments in the preparation and chemistry of metallacycles and metallacages via coordination

TR Cook, PJ Stang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The continued development of molecular architectures of consequence to both longstanding
and newly recognized problems demands ever evolving synthetic routes, characterizations …

Self-assembled M2L4 coordination cages: Synthesis and potential applications

A Schmidt, A Casini, FE Kühn - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Metal-mediated self-assemblies of the general formula M x L y (M= metal ion, L= ligand)
have emerged as a promising research area of supramolecular chemistry because of their …

Self-assembled conjoined-cages

S Samantray, S Krishnaswamy, DK Chand - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
A self-assembled coordination cage usually possesses one well-defined three-dimensional
(3D) cavity whereas infinite number of 3D-cavities are crafted in a designer metal-organic …

Multicavity [PdnL4]2n+ Cages with Controlled Segregated Binding of Different Guests

D Preston, JEM Lewis, JD Crowley - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Multicavity [Pd n (L) 4] 2 n+ metallosupramolecular cages based on long backboned ligands
are an attractive approach to increasing molecular size without loss of the binding specificity …

Multi-Stimuli-Responsive Metallogel Molded from a Pd2L4-Type Coordination Cage: Selective Removal of Anionic Dyes

S Ganta, DK Chand - Inorganic chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
A self-assembled binuclear coordination cage of the Pd2 L 4 formulation has been
constructed by complexation of Pd (NO3) 2 with N, N′-bis (3-pyridylmethyl) …

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 …

Enantiomerically Pure [M6L12] or [M12L24] Polyhedra from Flexible Bis(Pyridine) Ligands

C Guetz, R Hovorka, C Klein, QQ Jiang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Coordination‐driven self‐assembly is one of the most powerful strategies to prepare
nanometer‐sized discrete (supra) molecular assemblies. Herein, we report on the use of two …

Homochiral Supramolecular M2L4 Cages by High‐Fidelity Self‐Sorting of Chiral Ligands

C Gütz, R Hovorka, G Schnakenburg… - … –A European Journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A 1, 1′‐binaphthyl‐based bis (pyridine) ligand (1) was prepared in racemic and
enantiomerically pure form to study the formation of [Pd2 (1) 4] complexes upon coordination …

Conjoined and non-conjoined coordination cages with palladium (ii) vertices: structural diversity, solution dynamics, and intermolecular interactions

S Sharma, M Sarkar, DK Chand - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembled coordination complexes prepared from a combination of Pd (II) components
with one or more types of high-symmetry or low-symmetry bis/tris/tetrakis-monodentate …

Unresolved issues that remain in molecular self-assembly

S Hiraoka - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Two unresolved issues in molecular self-assembly are discussed. Firstly, a novel method for
the investigation of molecular self-assembly processes (QASAP: quantitative analysis of self …