Template Synthesis (Self-Assembly) of Macrocycles: Theory and Practice

Molecules. 2022 Jul 28;27(15):4829. doi: 10.3390/molecules27154829.

Abstract

For more than 60 years, in coordination chemistry (and since the beginning of the 21st century, in molecular nanotechnology, too), there has been very significant interest in template synthesis reactions, in which the design of coordination compounds (metal complexes) with complex ligands is carried out not according to the classical scheme [metal ion + ligand → complex], but according to scheme [metal ion + "building blocks" of the future ligand (the so-called ligand synthons or ligsons) → complex] [...].

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Coordination Complexes* / chemistry
  • Ligands
  • Metals* / chemistry

Substances

  • Coordination Complexes
  • Ligands
  • Metals

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.