1 Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Key Laboratory of Lignocellulosic Chemistry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China. fengpeng@bjfu.edu.cn.
2 Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China. akram@ms.xjb.ac.cn.
We herein report a 12-armed photo-responsive supramolecular star centered by a pillar[6]arene-coated M6L12 metal-organic polyhedron (MOP) via a core-first approach.