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Emerging Spacers‐Based Ligands for Supramolecular Coordination Complexes
Author(s) -
Mishra Isha,
Bhol Mamina,
Kalimuthu Palanisamy,
Sathiyendiran Malaichamy
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the chemical record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1528-0691
pISSN - 1527-8999
DOI - 10.1002/tcr.202000150
Subject(s) - supramolecular chemistry , molecular recognition , combinatorial chemistry , chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , coordination complex , metal , molecule , organic chemistry
The design and self‐assembly of supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs) i. e., discrete cyclic metalloarchitectures such as cycles, cages, mesocates, and helicates with desired size, shape, and properties have been increasing exponentially owing to their potential applications in molecular sensors, molecular cargos, molecular recognition, and catalysis. The introduction of the organic motifs and metal complexes as a spacer provides functionality to the metalloarchitecture. This review mainly focusses on newly evolving spacer based ligands employed to yield simple to high‐order metallosupramolecular assemblies using straight‐forward approaches. The new spacers including corannulene, organic cyclic framework, bicyclic organic motifs, aliphatic chain, metalloligands, triarylboron, BODIPY, azaphosphatrane, phosphine, and thio/selenophosphates offer a great set of properties and in‐built functionalities to the metalloarchitectures which are discussed in this review.