Compartmentalization of the aqueous space within a cell is necessary for life. In similar
fashion to the nanometer-scale compartments in living systems, synthetic water-soluble …

Molecular recognition in water using macrocyclic synthetic receptors constitutes a vibrant
and timely research area of supramolecular chemistry. Pioneering examples on the topic …

The continued development of molecular architectures of consequence to both longstanding
and newly recognized problems demands ever evolving synthetic routes, characterizations …

Over the last decade molecular containers have been increasingly studied within the context
of complex chemical systems. Herein we discuss selected examples from the literature …

Conspectus Macrocyclic hosts are the principal tools used in supramolecular chemistry
because they can recognize other small molecules through non-covalent interactions …

Absolute chiral environments are rare in regular polyhedral and prismatic architectures, but
are achievable from self-assembly of metal–organic cages/containers (MOCs), which endow …

During the last half a century, great achievements have been made in molecular recognition
in parallel with the invention of numerous synthetic receptors. However, the selective …

A growing variety of covalent reactions have been employed to achieve the post-assembly
modification (PAM) of self-assembled metallosupramolecular complexes. Covalent PAM …

Here we report a new class of hydrogels formed by polymers that are cross-linked through
subcomponent self-assembled metal–organic cages. Selective encapsulation of guest …

We synthesized a double-walled knotted cage from a flexible tripodal ligand. The
characteristic double-walled structure provided a unique adaptive behavior of the cavity …