Post-synthetic modifications of metal–organic cages

J Liu, Z Wang, P Cheng, MJ Zaworotko… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Metal–organic cages (MOCs) are discrete, supramolecular entities that consist of metal
nodes and organic linkers, which can offer solution processability and high porosity …

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 …

Supramolecular transformations within discrete coordination-driven supramolecular architectures

W Wang, YX Wang, HB Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, a comprehensive summary of supramolecular transformations within discrete
coordination-driven supramolecular architectures, including helices, metallacycles …

Covalent post-assembly modification in metallosupramolecular chemistry

DA Roberts, BS Pilgrim, JR Nitschke - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
A growing variety of covalent reactions have been employed to achieve the post-assembly
modification (PAM) of self-assembled metallosupramolecular complexes. Covalent PAM …

Capture of Singlet Oxygen Modulates Host‐Guest Behavior of Coordination Cages

I Jahović, Y Yang, TK Ronson… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The anthracene panels of two tetrahedral MII4L6 cages, where MII= CoII or FeII, were found
to react with photogenerated singlet oxygen (1O2) in a hetero‐Diels–Alder reaction. ESI‐MS …

Sterics and hydrogen bonding control stereochemistry and self-sorting in BINOL-based assemblies

YQ Zou, D Zhang, TK Ronson, A Tarzia… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Here we demonstrate how the hydrogen-bonding ability of a BINOL-based dialdehyde
subcomponent dictated the stereochemical outcome of its subsequent self-assembly into …

Tandem reactivity of a self-assembled cage catalyst with endohedral acid groups

LR Holloway, PM Bogie, Y Lyon, C Ngai… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly of a carboxylic acid-containing ligand into an Fe4L6 iminopyridine cage
allows endohedral positioning of the acid groups while maintaining a robust cage structure …

Signal transduction in a covalent post-assembly modification cascade

BS Pilgrim, DA Roberts, TG Lohr, TK Ronson… - Nature Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Natural reaction cascades control the movement of biomolecules between cellular
compartments. Inspired by these systems, we report a synthetic reaction cascade employing …

Guest‐Induced Transformation of a Porphyrin‐Edged FeII4L6 Capsule into a CuIFeII2L4 Fullerene Receptor

DM Wood, W Meng, TK Ronson… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The combination of a bent diamino (nickel (II) porphyrin) with 2‐formylpyridine and FeII
yielded an FeII4L6 cage. Upon treatment with the fullerenes C60 or C70, this cage was …

Multisite binding of drugs and natural products in an entropically favorable, heteroleptic receptor

FJ Rizzuto, JP Carpenter… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The cavities of artificial receptors are defined by how their components fit together. The
encapsulation of specific molecules can thus be engineered by considering geometric …