The design of artificial catalysts able to compete with the catalytic proficiency of enzymes is
an intense subject of research. Non-covalent interactions are thought to be involved in …

Fascination with supramolecular chemistry over the past few decades has led to the
synthesis of an ever-increasing number of elegant and intricate functional structures with …

The hollow cavities of coordination cages can provide an environment for enzyme-like
catalytic reactions of small-molecule guests. Here, we report a new example (catalysis of the …

Drawing inspiration from the self-assembly of hollow spherical virus capsids and protein
cages found in nature, a family of roughly spherical coordination polyhedra with general …

Insider dealing: Self‐assembled hosts applied as “molecular flasks” can alter and control the
reactivity and properties of molecules encapsulated within their well‐defined, confined …

Molecular containers have attracted the interest of supramolecular chemists since the early
beginnings of the field. Cavitands' inner cavities were quickly exploited by Cram and …

When substrates are confined in an isolated cavity, they experience circumstances that are
distinctly different from those in a bulk solution. Molecular self-assembly has widened the …

Self-assembled, hollow molecular structures are appealing as synthetic hosts for mediating
chemical reactions. However, product binding has inhibited catalytic turnover in such …

In nature, chemical conversions take place in a confined environment and are closely
geared to each other such that the product of one reaction is the substrate or catalyst of the …

Many naturally occurring systems show us how multi-component supramolecular
assemblies can generate useful functional behaviour. In this article the problems and …