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Inside Back Cover: Designed Enclosure Enables Guest Binding Within the 4200 Å 3 Cavity of a Self‐Assembled Cube (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 19/2015)
Author(s) -
Ramsay William J.,
Szczypiński Filip T.,
Weissman Haim,
Ronson Tanya K.,
Smulders Maarten M. J.,
Rybtchinski Boris,
Nitschke Jonathan R.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201502796
Subject(s) - enclosure , cube (algebra) , cover (algebra) , variety (cybernetics) , nanotechnology , chemistry , materials science , computer science , engineering , electrical engineering , mechanical engineering , combinatorics , mathematics , artificial intelligence
Designing large metal–organic hosts whose cavities are sufficiently differentiated from the solvent environment to enable guest binding is a challenge. In their Communication on page 5636 ff., J. R. Nitschke et al. report a rational strategy that allows the size of a self‐assembled cube to be increased whilst maintaining an enclosed cavity capable of binding a variety of mono‐ and dianionic guests. The degree of cavity occupancy appears less important than cavity enclosure and Coulombic effects.