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 …

New insights and discoveries in anion receptor chemistry

DA McNaughton, WG Ryder, AM Gilchrist, P Wang… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
This review offers a broad overview of the advancements in anion receptor chemistry in
2021 and 2022. Detailed examples of acclaimed work in fundamental recognition, sensing …

Fine‐tuning of chiral microenvironments within triple‐stranded helicates for enhanced enantioselectivity

J Jiao, J Dong, Y Li, Y Cui - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Here we report the formation of an unexpected and unique family of chiral helicates. Crystal
structures show that these triple‐stranded ZnII2L3 complexes are held together by …

Uncovering tetrazoles as building blocks for constructing discrete and polymeric assemblies

S Dey, M Aggarwal, D Chakraborty… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic self-assembly with flexible moieties is a budding field of research due to the
possibility of the formation of unique architectures. Tetrazole, characterised by four nitrogen …

Cooperativity of steric bulk and H-bonding in coordination sphere engineering: heteroleptic Pd II cages and bowls by design

B Chen, JJ Holstein, A Platzek, L Schneider, K Wu… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently developed self-assembly strategies allow to rationally reduce the symmetry of
metallosupramolecular architectures. In addition, the combination of multiple ligand types …

Anion‐Directed Regulation of Structures and Luminescence of Heterometallic Clusters

JJ Li, CY Liu, ZJ Guan, Z Lei, QM Wang - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Anions have been used to regulate the structures and luminescence of heterometallic
clusters. Introducing ClO4− into orange‐emissive, butterfly‐like [(C)(Au‐PPhpy2) 6Ag4](BF4) …

A Double‐Walled Tetrahedron with AgI4 Vertices Binds Different Guests in Distinct Sites**

SE Clark, AW Heard, CT McTernan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A double‐walled tetrahedral metal‐organic cage assembled in solution from silver (I), 2‐
formyl‐1, 8‐naphthyridine, halide, and a threefold‐symmetric triamine. The AgI4X clusters at …

A five-stranded heterometallic helicate

S Sudan, F Fadaei-Tirani, K Severin - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A penta-stranded helicate was obtained by combining [Pd (CH3CN) 4](BF4) 2 with La (NO3)
3 and a polydentate ligand. The helicate displays low symmetry, both in solution and in the …

Orthogonal, modular anion–cation and cation–anion self-assembly using pre-programmed anion binding sites

A Dhara, RE Fadler, Y Chen, LA Köttner… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Subcomponent self-assembly relies on cation coordination whereas the roles of anions
often only emerge during the assembly process. When sites for anions are instead pre …