Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Design and self-assembly of hexahedral coordination cages for cascade reactions

  • Jingjing Jiao,
  • Zijian Li,
  • Zhiwei Qiao,
  • Xu Li,
  • Yan Liu,
  • Jinqiao Dong,
  • Jianwen Jiang,
  • Yong Cui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06872-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Supramolecular containers are promising enzyme mimics, but they currently accommodate only a limited range of chemical transformations. Here, the authors describe coordination cages that catalyze two-component cascade reactions without relying on an external or encapsulated catalytic species.