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:10.1038/s41467-023-35850-4

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

Affiliations

Shinnosuke Horiuchi: Division of Chemistry and Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagasaki University
Takumi Yamaguchi: School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jacopo Tessarolo: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TU Dortmund University
Hirotaka Tanaka: Division of Chemistry and Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagasaki University
Eri Sakuda: Division of Chemistry and Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagasaki University
Yasuhiro Arikawa: Division of Chemistry and Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagasaki University
Eric Meggers: Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Guido H. Clever: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TU Dortmund University
Keisuke Umakoshi: Division of Chemistry and Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagasaki University

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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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