Purely covalent molecular cages and containers for guest encapsulation

G Montà-González, F Sancenón… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cage compounds offer unique binding pockets similar to enzyme-binding sites, which can
be customized in terms of size, shape, and functional groups to point toward the cavity and …

Reticular chemistry in the construction of porous organic cages

K Su, W Wang, S Du, C Ji, M Zhou… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Reticular chemistry offers the possibility of systematic design of porous materials with
different pores by varying the building blocks, while the emerging porous organic cage …

Efficient ethylene purification by a robust ethane-trapping porous organic cage

K Su, W Wang, S Du, C Ji, D Yuan - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
The removal of ethane (C2H6) from its analogous ethylene (C2H4) is of paramount
importance in the petrochemical industry, but highly challenging due to their similar …

Multicomponent metallo-supramolecular nanocapsules assembled from calix [4] resorcinarene-based terpyridine ligands

L He, SC Wang, LT Lin, JY Cai, L Li… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Tetrafunctionalized calix [4] resorcinarene cavitands commonly serve as supramolecular
scaffolds for construction of coordination-driven self-assembled capsules. However, due to …

Organic cages as building blocks for mechanically interlocked molecules: towards molecular machines

S La Cognata, A Miljkovic, R Mobili… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The research on systems able to perform controllable motions under external stimuli arises
great interest in the scientific community. Over the years, a library of innovative devices has …

Catechol [4] arene: the missing chiral member of the calix [4] arene family

SJ Nemat, H Jedrzejewska, A Prescimone… - Organic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A missing, inherently chiral member of the calix [4] arene family denoted “catechol [4] arene”
was synthesized. Its properties were studied and compared to the ones of its close relatives …

Water-stable hydrazone-linked porous organic cages

M Yang, F Qiu, ESM El-Sayed, W Wang, S Du, K Su… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Although porous organic cages (POCs), particularly imine-linked (CN) ones, have advanced
significantly over the last few decades, the reversible nature of imine linkages makes them …

Crystallization of a supramolecular coassembly of an atomically precise nanoparticle with a crown ether

P Chakraborty, A Nag, KS Sugi, T Ahuja… - ACS Materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report the crystal structure of a supramolecular coassembly of a red luminescent silver
cluster,[Ag29 (BDT) 12 (TPP) 4] 3–(referred to as Ag29)(BDT, 1, 3-benzene dithiol; TPP …

A Chiral [2+ 3] Covalent Organic Cage Based on 1, 1'‐Bi‐2‐naphthol (BINOL) Units

M Mohan, DJ Pham, A Fluck, S Chapuis… - … A European Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A [2+ 3] chiral covalent organic cage is produced through a dynamic covalent
chemistry approach by mixing two readily available building units, viz. an enantiopure 3, 3' …

Template-directed self-assembly of dynamic covalent capsules with polar interiors

A Galán, EC Escudero-Adán, P Ballester - Chemical Science, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral polyimine molecular capsules with polar interiors have been prepared through
template covalent dynamic self-assembly. An aryl-extended tetraaldehyde calix [4] pyrrole …