Coordination-directed construction of molecular links

WX Gao, HJ Feng, BB Guo, Y Lu, GX Jin - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Since the emergence of the concept of chemical topology, interlocked molecular assemblies
have graduated from academic curiosities and poorly defined species to become synthetic …

Aromatic rings in chemical and biological recognition: energetics and structures

LM Salonen, M Ellermann… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This review describes a multidimensional treatment of molecular recognition phenomena
involving aromatic rings in chemical and biological systems. It summarizes new results …

Chemical topology: complex molecular knots, links, and entanglements

RS Forgan, JP Sauvage, JF Stoddart - Chemical Reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
1.1. History and Background Knots and links are all around us (Figure 1). Be they functional
or decorative, we encounter them constantly, when, for example, tying simple bow knots in …

Strategies and tactics for the metal‐directed synthesis of rotaxanes, knots, catenanes, and higher order links

JE Beves, BA Blight, CJ Campbell… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
More than a quarter of a century after the first metal template synthesis of a [2] catenane in
Strasbourg, there now exists a plethora of strategies available for the construction of …

Chiral carbon nanorings: synthesis, properties and hierarchical self‐assembly of chiral ternary complexes featuring a narcissistic chiral self‐recognition for chiral …

Y Fan, J He, L Liu, G Liu, S Guo, Z Lian, X Li… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report the synthesis and chiroptical properties of novel chiral carbon nanorings Sp‐/Rp‐
[12] PCPP containing a planar chiral [2.2] PCP unit, and demonstrate that Sp‐/Rp‐[12] PCPP …

Self-assembled coordination complexes from various palladium (II) components and bidentate or polydentate ligands

NB Debata, D Tripathy, DK Chand - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Palladium (II) has four coordination sites and forms square planar complexes. Discrete self-
assemblies are generated by the combination of a variety of palladium (II) components and …

Aromatische Ringe in chemischer und biologischer Erkennung: Energien und Strukturen

LM Salonen, M Ellermann, F Diederich - Angewandte Chemie, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Dieser Aufsatz beschreibt Phänomene der molekularen Erkennung von
aromatischen Ringen in chemischen und biologischen Systemen in einem …

Formation of [3] catenanes from 10 precursors via multicomponent coordination-driven self-assembly of metallarectangles

S Li, J Huang, TR Cook, JB Pollock, H Kim… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We describe the formation of a suite of [3] catenanes via multicomponent coordination-
driven self-assembly and host–guest complexation of a rectangular scaffold comprising a …

Dissecting the “Blue box”: Self-assembly strategies for the construction of multipurpose polycationic cyclophanes

I Neira, A Blanco-Gómez, JM Quintela… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Stoddart's “blue box”(B 4+), is one of the most iconic molecules in the recent
history of chemistry. This rectangular tetracationic cyclophane has not only the ability to …

The Topological Transformation of 41 Knot to 412 Link through Supramolecular Fusion

PP Hua, JH Bai, HJ Feng, JW Wang… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Realizing topological transformation through supramolecular fusion is particularly
challenging, as the self-assembly of disparate components often results in the orthogonal …