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  • A molecular ‘stellated polyhedron’ with concave faces — constructed by extending the faces of its counterpart polyhedron until they intersect — has now been synthesized. Ligands that constitute the square faces of a metal–organic cuboctahedral cage were decorated with pendant side chains, which reversibly coordinate to additional metal centres to give rise to the stellated cage.

    • Qing-Fu Sun
    • Sota Sato
    • Makoto Fujita
    Research
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 4, P: 330-333

  • The use of metal clusters to construct artificial protein-mimic structures with adaptable cavities has potential for simulating the dynamics and functionality of natural proteins. Here, the authors develop a family of chiral metal-peptide assemblies using {Ni3} clusters and flexible peptides, resulting in structures such as octahedral cages, trigonal prisms, and capsules.

    • Pei-Ming Cheng
    • Tao Jia
    • Xiang-Jian Kong
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-8

  • Container-molecules capable of recognizing charged species possess great potential as sensors, but are typically limited by their rigid frameworks. Here, Sun and co-workers design a family of adaptive metal-organic macrocycles that exhibit shape and size induced-fit transformations upon anion-binding.

    • Ting Zhang
    • Li-Peng Zhou
    • Qing-Fu Sun
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-8

  • The development of efficient adsorbents to capture iodine originating from radioactive wastes is of importance. Here, the authors synthesize hexacationic imidazolium organic cages and study the crucial role of the counter anions for iodine capture and the iodine binding modes at the molecular level on the solid state.

    • Jian Yang
    • Shao-Jun Hu
    • Qing-Fu Sun
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-8

  • Lanthanide ions possess similar chemical properties, making their separation from one another challenging. Here the authors show that a tris-tridentate ligand causes high-precision metal ion self-sorting, leading to the selective assembly of tetrahedral M4L4 cages across the lanthanide series.

    • Xiao-Zhen Li
    • Li-Peng Zhou
    • Qing-Fu Sun
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-10

  • Catalytic arene carboxylation with CO2 is a challenging reaction, with limited substrate scope and selectivity. Now, a redox neutral method based on a ligand-assisted Rh-catalysed C–H activation is shown, which features broad scope and provides access to important and biologically relevant structural motifs

    • Lei Fu
    • Shangda Li
    • Gang Li
    Research
    Nature Catalysis
    Volume: 1, P: 469-478