Issue 8, 2022

Metallosupramolecular cages: from design principles and characterisation techniques to applications

Abstract

Although metallosupramolecular cages are self-assembled from seemingly simple building blocks, metal ions and organic ligands, architectures of increasingly large size and complexity are accessible and exploited in applications from catalysis to the stabilisation of reactive species. This Tutorial Review gives an introduction to the principles for designing metallosupramolecular cages and highlights advances in the design of large and lower symmetry cages. The characterisation and identification of cages relies on a number of complementary techniques with NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, X-ray crystallography and computational methods being the focus of this review. Finally, examples of cages are discussed where these design principles and characterisation techniques are put into practice for an application or function of the cage.

Graphical abstract: Metallosupramolecular cages: from design principles and characterisation techniques to applications

Article information

Article type
Tutorial Review
Submitted
10 Dec 2021
First published
31 Mar 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2022,51, 2957-2971

Metallosupramolecular cages: from design principles and characterisation techniques to applications

A. J. McConnell, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2022, 51, 2957 DOI: 10.1039/D1CS01143J

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