Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Symmetry-breaking host–guest assembly in a hydrogen-bonded supramolecular system

  • Shinnosuke Horiuchi,
  • Takumi Yamaguchi,
  • Jacopo Tessarolo,
  • Hirotaka Tanaka,
  • Eri Sakuda,
  • Yasuhiro Arikawa,
  • Eric Meggers,
  • Guido H. Clever,
  • Keisuke Umakoshi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35850-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Self-assembly processes usually yield symmetric compounds. Here, the authors report the distortion of a symmetric hydrogen-bonded resorcin[4]arene cage upon encapsulation of an iridium complex.