Design and applications of water-soluble coordination cages

EG Percástegui, TK Ronson, JR Nitschke - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Compartmentalization of the aqueous space within a cell is necessary for life. In similar
fashion to the nanometer-scale compartments in living systems, synthetic water-soluble …

Transformation networks of metal–organic cages controlled by chemical stimuli

E Benchimol, BNT Nguyen, TK Ronson… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The flexibility of biomolecules enables them to adapt and transform as a result of signals
received from the external environment, expressing different functions in different contexts …

Self-Assembled Pd12 Coordination Cage as Photoregulated Oxidase-Like Nanozyme

S Bhattacharyya, SR Ali… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Designing supramolecular architectures with uncommon geometries embedded with
functional building units is of immense importance in contemporary research. In this report …

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 …

Stimuli-responsive metal–ligand assemblies

AJ McConnell, CS Wood, PP Neelakandan… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Within living systems, molecular-scale responses to stimuli flow together into the intricate
and robust signal transduction networks that process information for an organism. Studies of …

Hydrogen storage materials for mobile and stationary applications: current state of the art

Q Lai, M Paskevicius, DA Sheppard… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
One of the limitations to the widespread use of hydrogen as an energy carrier is its storage
in a safe and compact form. Herein, recent developments in effective high‐capacity …

Stereochemistry in subcomponent self-assembly

AM Castilla, WJ Ramsay… - Accounts of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus As Pasteur noted more than 150 years ago, asymmetry exists in matter at all
organization levels. Biopolymers such as proteins or DNA adopt one-handed conformations …

Antitumor activity of a unique polymer that incorporates a fluorescent self-assembled metallacycle

G Yu, M Zhang, ML Saha, Z Mao, J Chen… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Despite the well-known anticancer activity of mono-and multinuclear platinum complexes,
studies of the antitumor performances of platinum-based supramolecular coordination …

Beyond platonic: how to build metal–organic polyhedra capable of binding low-symmetry, information-rich molecular cargoes

CT McTernan, JA Davies, JR Nitschke - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The field of metallosupramolecular chemistry has advanced rapidly in recent years. Much
work in this area has focused on the formation of hollow self-assembled metal-organic …

Anionic Templates Drive Conversion between a ZnII9L6 Tricapped Trigonal Prism and ZnII6L4 Pseudo-Octahedra

HK Liu, TK Ronson, K Wu, D Luo… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This work introduces the use of 8-aminoquinoline subcomponents to generate complex
three-dimensional structures. Together with a tris (formylpyridine), 8-aminoquinoline …