Supramolecular Chemistry
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Description
Supramolecular chemistry refers to the area of chemistry beyond the molecules and focuses on the chemical systems made up of a discrete number of assembled molecular subunits or components. The forces responsible for the spatial organization may vary from weak (intermolecular forces, electrostatic or hydrogen bonding) to strong (covalent bonding), provided that the degree of electronic coupling between the molecular component remains small with respect to relevant energy parameters of the component. While traditional chemistry focuses on the covalent bond, supramolecular chemistry examines the weaker and reversible noncovalent interactions between molecules. These forces include hydrogen bonding, metal coordination, hydrophobic forces, van der Waals forces, pi-pi interactions and electrostatic effects. Important concepts that have been demonstrated by supramolecular chemistry include molecular self-assembly, folding, molecular recognition, host-guest chemistry, mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures and dynamic covalent chemistry. The study of non-covalent interactions is crucial to understand many biological processes from cell structure to vision that rely on these forces for structure and function. Biological systems are often the inspiration for supramolecular research.
Publications
- A photosensitizer–polyoxometalate dyad that enables the decoupling of light and dark reactions for delayed on-demand solar hydrogen production
- Mechanical Activation of Terpyridine Metal Complexes in Polymers
- Coexistence of distinct intramolecular electron transfer pathways in polyoxometalate based molecular triads
- Hydrogel-Embedded Model Photocatalytic System Investigated by Raman and IR Spectroscopy Assisted by Density Functional Theory Calculations and Two-Dimensional Correlation Analysis
- Determining solid/liquid interfacial energies in Al-Cu by curvature controlled melting point depression
- A healing ionomer crosslinked by a bis-bidentate halogen bond linker: a route to hard and healable coatings
- Direct detection of the photoinduced charge-separated state in a Ru(II) bis(terpyridine)–polyoxometalate molecular dyad
- Thermally Switchable Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer via Reversible Diels–Alder Reaction of π‐Conjugated Oligo‐(Phenylene Ethynylene)s
- Halogen Bonding in Solution: Anion Recognition, Templated Self‐Assembly, and Organocatalysis
- PtII Phosphors with Click-Derived 1,2,3-Triazole-Containing Tridentate Chelates
- Energy versus Electron Transfer: Controlling the Excitation Transfer in Molecular Triads
- Mild electropolymerization and monitoring of continuous film formation for photoredox-active Ru metallopolymers
- Halogen-bond-based cooperative ion-pair recognition by a crown-ether-embedded 5-iodo-1,2,3-triazole
- Soluble PtII-Containing Polymers Based on a 2,6-Bis(1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-4-ethynylpyridine Ligand
- Synthesis of d-fructose conjugated ligands via C6 and C1 and their corresponding [Ru(bpy)2(L)]Cl2 complexes
- Curcuminoid–BF2 complexes: Synthesis, fluorescence and optimization of BF2 group cleavage
- An Amphiphilic Ruthenium Polymetallodrug for Combined Photodynamic Therapy and Photochemotherapy In Vivo
- Bi-diketopyrrolopyrrole (Bi-DPP) as a novel electron accepting compound in low band gap π-conjugated donor–acceptor copolymers/oligomers
- Synthesis and in vitro Toxicity of D -Glucose and D -Fructose Conjugated Curcumin–Ruthenium Complexes
- Synthesis and characterization of metallo-supramolecular polymers
- Aryl-Decorated RuII Polypyridyl-type Photosensitizer Approaching NIR Emission with Microsecond Excited State Lifetimes
- Modular Assembly of Poly(naphthalene diimide) and Ru(II) Dyes for an Efficient Light-Induced Charge Separation in Hierarchically Controlled Polymer Architectures
- Efficient Energy Transfer and Metal Coupling in Cyanide-Bridged Heterodinuclear Complexes Based on (Bipyridine)(terpyridine)ruthenium(II) and (Phenylpyridine)iridium(III) Complexes
- Energy transfer and formation of long-lived 3MLCT states in multimetallic complexes with extended highly conjugated bis-terpyridyl ligands