Distinct selectivity inside self-assembled coordination cages

Yang Liang; Xiaojuan Zhou; Sreeraj Gopi; Rui Wang

doi:10.3389/fchem.2023.1269471

Distinct selectivity inside self-assembled coordination cages

Front Chem. 2023 Sep 5:11:1269471. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2023.1269471. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Yang Liang^#¹, Xiaojuan Zhou^#¹, Sreeraj Gopi¹, Rui Wang¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis and Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Supramolecular containers have long been applied to regulate organic reactions with distinct selectivity, owing to their diverse functions such as the ability to pose a guest molecule(s) with a certain orientation and conformation. In this review, we try to illustrate how self-assembled coordination cages could achieve this goal. Two representative cage hosts, namely, self-assembled Pd(II)-ligand octahedral coordination cages ([Pd₆L₄]¹²⁺) and self-assembled Ga(III)-ligand tetrahedral coordination cages ([Ga₄L₆]^12-) are selected as the pilot hosts that this mini review covers. Representative works in this area are presented here in brief.

Keywords: confined spaces; constrained environment; distinct selectivity; noncovalent protecting group; self-assembled coordination cages.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22101169).