Conspectus This Account is about templates as construction tools: molecules for making
molecules. A template organizes the reactants and provides information to promote …

In recent times, researchers have emphasized practical approaches for capturing
coordinated and selective guest entrap. The physisorbed nanoporous supramolecular …

A bola-type supra-amphiphile was successfully prepared and demonstrated to act as a dual
fluorescent sensor. It was constructed from a water-soluble pillar [5] arene (WP5) and an …

Advances in template-directed synthesis make it possible to create artificial molecules with
protein-like dimensions, directly from simple components. These synthetic macromolecules …

Macrocycles have attracted much attention due to their specific “endless” topology, which
results in extraordinary properties compared to related linear (open-chain) molecules …

Rings of chlorophyll molecules harvest sunlight remarkably efficiently during photosynthesis
in purple bacteria. The key to their efficiency lies in their highly delocalized excited states …

Metal–phenolic networks (MPNs) are an emerging class of functional metal–organic
materials with a high degree of modularity in terms of the choice of metal ion, phenolic …

The topology of a conjugated molecule plays a significant role in controlling both the
electronic properties and the conformational manifold that the molecule may explore. Fully π …

The electronic structure of a molecular quantum ring (stacks of 40-unit cyclic porphyrin
polymers) is characterized via scanning tunneling microscopy and scanning tunneling …

The fluorescence of a two-dimensional supramolecular network of 5, 10, 15, 20-tetrakis (4-
carboxylphenyl) porphyrin (TCPP) adsorbed on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is red-shifted …