Molecular recognition plays an important role in nature, with perhaps the best known example being the complementarity exhibited by pairs of nucleobases in DNA. Studies of self-assembling and self-organizing systems based on molecular recognition are often performed at the molecular level, however, and any macroscopic implications of these processes are usually far removed from the specific mol...

Polarimetry was used to investigate the binding abilities of a chiral calix[4]resorcinarene derivative, bearing L-proline subunits, towards a set of suitably selected organic guests. The simultaneous formation of 1:1 and 2:1 host-guest inclusion complexes was observed in several cases, depending on both the charge status of the host and the structure of the guest. Thus, the use of the polarimet...

Supramolecular interactions of polynitroxides with c-cyclodextrin (c-CD) were used to control intramolecular electron spin–spin exchange couplings in these stable radicals. In the absence of c-CD, the binitroxide T2 and trinitroxide T3 showed strong spin–spin coupling as evidenced by the high exchange coupling constant of J = 120 MHz for T2 in its EPR spectra. Host/guest complexes are formed up...

A supramolecular poly[3]pseudorotaxane was prepared by self-assembly of a homoditopic cylindrical bis(crown ether) host and a bisparaquat derivative in solution by host-guest complexation.

A lamellar liquid crystal (LC) phase of certain bent-core mesogenic molecules can be grown in a manner that generates a single chiral helical nanofilament in each of the cylindrical nanopores of an anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane. By introducing guest molecules into the resulting composite chiral nanochannels, we explore the structures and functionality of the ordered guest/host LC complex...

We report on the effects of introducing guest molecules into a functionalized anthradithiophene (ADT) host on the photoluminescent (PL) and photoconductive properties of solution-deposited thin films. An addition of 0.1 wt % of an ADT derivative with cyano end groups (ADT-TIPS-CN) to a fluorinated ADT derivative (ADT-TES-F) resulted in the near complete quenching of the fluorescence spectrum of...

Binding sites are at the heart of all host-guest systems, whether biological or chemical. When considering binding sites that form covalent bonds with the guest, we generally envision a single, highly specific binding motif. Through single-crystal X-ray crystallography, the dynamic binding of a guest that displays a variety of covalent binding motifs in a single site of adsorption is directly o...

A novel competitive binding assay was implemented to monitor the binding of a redox inactive substrate to a redox inactive metallacrown host based on its competition with ferrocene carboxylate (FcC(-)) using cyclic voltammetry (CV). First, the binding of FcC(-) to Ln(III)[15-MC(Cu(II),N,L-pheHA)-5] (LnMC) hosts was characterized by cyclic voltammetry. It was shown that the voltammetric half wav...