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Cover Feature: Supramolecular Coordination Cages Based on N‐Heterocyclic Carbene‐Gold(I) Ligands and Their Precursors: Self‐Assembly, Structural Transformation and Guest‐Binding Properties (Chem. Eur. J. 29/2021)
Author(s) -
Shi WenJie,
Liu Dan,
Li Xin,
Bai Sha,
Wang YaoYu,
Han YingFeng
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.202101551
Subject(s) - homoleptic , supramolecular chemistry , cationic polymerization , chemistry , self assembly , cage , crystallography , stereochemistry , polymer chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry , crystal structure , metal , mathematics , combinatorics
Systematic design and self‐assembly of complex supramolecular coordination cages with predictable configurations has been a long‐standing challenge in chemistry, which is as mysterious as the starry sky depicted in the cover image. This work reports a trackable CpZr‐involved cage to cage conversion to generate a heteroleptic V 2 E 3 cage from two homoleptic cages with different geometries of V 2 E 3 and V 4 E 6 . Moreover, SCC‐2 cage possesses a cationic cavity allowing the encapsulation of a series of sulfonate anionic guests. More information can be found in the Full Paper by S. Bai, Y.‐F. Han, et al. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202100710).