Molecular Cages: Synthesis and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2022) | Viewed by 663
Special Issue Editor
Interests: supramolecular chemistry; biological applications of supramolecular chemistry; molecular cages; nanochemistry; nanomedicine
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Dear Colleagues,
My name is Vicente Vicente Martí-Centelles, CIDEGENT Distinguished researcher at the Instituto de Reconocimiento Molecular y Desarrollo Tecnológico (IDM) at Universitat Politècnica de València, and I will be guest edditing a Special Issue in the journal Molecules entitled “Molecular cages: synthesis and applications”.
Molecular cages have exceptional binding pockets, reminiscent to enzyme binding sites. Molecular cages can be formed, mainly under thermodynamic control using a reversible bond formation at the cage formation step, from the self-assembly of organic molecules (purely organic cages, capsules, or carcerands) or from the self-assembly of organic ligands and metals (metal organic cages). The development of powerful synthetic methods allowed the development of the field with a vast range of cages with customized cavities with tailored sizes, shapes, and functional groups pointing towards the cavity. The wide variety of cages allowed a fast growing of the field with applications on encapsulation of guest species (in organic solvents, water, or biological media), sensing, catalysis, gas separation, porous columnar materials, etc.
This Special Issue aims to collect original research papers, communications, or review articles on any of the topics described above. Contributions describing the synthesis of cages, the applications cages, or both are welcome.
Dr. Vicente Martí-Centelles
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecular cages
- nanocapsules
- supramolecular chemistry
- host-guest chemistry
- synthesis
