The employment of weak intermolecular interactions in supramolecular chemistry offers an
alternative approach to project artificial chemical environments like the active sites of …

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 …

Natural enzymes catalyze reactions in their substrate-binding cavities, exhibiting high
specificity and efficiency. In an effort to mimic the structure and functionality of enzymes …

Conspectus Coordination-driven self-assembly can produce large, symmetrical, hollow
cages that are synthetically easy to access. The functions provided by these aesthetically …

The adoption of a supramolecular approach in catalysis promises to address a number of
unmet challenges, ranging from activity (unlocking of novel reaction pathways) to selectivity …

The continued development of molecular architectures of consequence to both longstanding
and newly recognized problems demands ever evolving synthetic routes, characterizations …

Millions of years of evolution have produced biological systems capable of efficient one-pot
multi-step catalysis. The underlying mechanisms that facilitate these reaction processes are …

Asymmetric catalysis is one of the most attractive strategies to obtain important
enantiomerically pure chemicals with high quality and production. In addition, thanks to the …

Over the last decade molecular containers have been increasingly studied within the context
of complex chemical systems. Herein we discuss selected examples from the literature …

Supramolecular nanoreactors featuring multiple catalytically active sites are of great
importance, especially for asymmetric catalysis, and are yet challenging to construct. Here …