Recent advances and perspectives on supramolecular radical cages

Abstract

Supramolecular radical chemistry has been emerging as a cutting-edge interdisciplinary field of traditional supramolecular chemistry and radical chemistry in recent years. The purpose of such fundamental research field is to...

Electro-optical π-radicals: design advances, applications and future perspectives

“…15 Å) to allow through-space spin-spin interactions and thermal modulation of the spin state. Yang et al 259 have provided an overview of the recent progress on the development of supramolecular radical cages and their applications.…”

Guest-Driven Self-Assembly and Chiral Induction of Photofunctional Lanthanide Tetrahedral Cages

“…Discrete metal–organic architectures have become one of the most fascinating fields in supramolecular chemistry, due to their exquisite structures and diverse functions. − Metal–organic cages with well-defined inner cavities represent an outstanding class of such compounds. − Among them, lanthanide-containing supramolecular cages have recently received increasing attention due to the coupling of their host–guest chemistry with the unique optical, electrical, and magnetic properties brought by the f-elements. − While the complicated coordination behavior of lanthanide ions brings a big obstacle toward their application in the metal-directed self-assembly, we anticipate that the variation tolerance on coordination geometry of lanthanide ions will endow the lanthanide–organic cages with more adaptive features compared to their counterparts made of transition metals.…”

Recent trends in organic cage synthesis: push towards water-soluble organic cages

“…A metal–organic cage is defined as one where the bonds forming the compound are metal–ligand co-ordination in nature. Extensive research in the field of coordination cages has been done by several research groups, 3–8 and has been reviewed extensively. 9 The topic of this review will thus not encompass metal–organic cages and focus only on the much less reviewed organic cages.…”