Supramolecular chemistry mainly focuses on the chemical systems assembled by a discrete
number of molecular components through weak and reversible noncovalent interactions …

Half a century after Schill and Lüttringhaus carried out the first directed synthesis of a [2]
catenane, a plethora of strategies now exist for the construction of molecular Hopf links …

Although chiral mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) have been synthesised and
studied, enantiopure examples are relatively under-represented in the pantheon of reported …

In the past three decades, chemistry has changed from focusing on a single molecule to
molecular assemblies. Through the discovery of macrocycles, the chemistry of molecular …

Mechanically interlocked molecules are perhaps best known as components of molecular
machines, a view further reinforced by the Nobel Prize in 2016 to Stoddart and Sauvage …

Rotaxanes are molecules composed of one or more macrocycles threaded onto one or more
axles that bear bulky stoppers to prevent the macrocycles from slipping off. 1 The first …

We report on rotaxanes featuring a pyridyl-acyl hydrazone moiety on the axle as a
photo/thermal-switchable macrocycle binding site. The pyridyl-acyl E-hydrazone acts as a …

Azodicarboxamides (R2NCON NCONR2) are shown to act as new templates for the
assembly of unprecedented azo-functionalized hydrogen-bond-assembled [2] rotaxanes …

Ein halbes Jahrhundert nach der ersten gerichteten Synthese eines [2] Catenans durch
Schill und Lüttringhaus existiert heutzutage eine Vielzahl an Strategien zur Synthese von …

En route to a photoswitchable interlocked catalyst we have proved the ability of
thiodiglycolamide to act as a template in the formation of hydrogen-bonded [2] rotaxanes. X …