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The widespread use of molecular machines in biology has long suggested that great
rewards could come from bridging the gap between synthetic molecular systems and the …

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 …

The widespread use of controlled molecular‐level motion in key natural processes suggests
that great rewards could come from bridging the gap between the present generation of …

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 …

The olefin metathesis reaction has been known since the 1960s, but it was not until the early
1990s that this transformation became an important tool in synthetic organic chemistry. It …

Ring-closing metathesis (RCM) of dienes is one of the most important methodologies now in
use for the assembly of cyclic organic compounds. First employed by Villemin and by Tsuji …

Platinum-group metal halide-sulfoxide complexes, and dimethyl sulfoxide (dmso) complexes
in particular, have a rich chemistry and are widely used as precursors in inorganic synthesis …

Mechanically interlocked molecular compounds can be synthesized in high yields by using
template-directed assistance to covalent synthesis. Catenanes and rotaxanes are two …