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Synfacts 2025; 21(04): 353
DOI: 10.1055/a-2539-2522
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products

Supramolecular Snub Cubes with Chirality

Contributor(s):
Dahui Zhao
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Yanning Cheng
Wu H *, Wang Y *, Đorđević L, Kundu P, Bhunia S, Chen AX-Y, Feng L, Shen DK, Liu W, Zhang L, Song B, Wu G, Liu B, Yang MY, Yang Y, Stern CL, Stupp SI, Goddard III. WA, Hu W *, Stoddart JF *. Tianjin University and The University of Hong Kong, P. R. China
Dynamic Supramolecular Snub Cubes.

Nature 2025;
637: 347-353
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08266-3
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Keywords

dynamic polyhedra - snub cubes - chiral assembly - weak C–H hydrogen bonds

Significance

Artificial supramolecular polyhedra of various shapes and well-defined structures, exhibiting special properties such as selective guest binding, have extraordinary potential. Chirality is an additional bonus that brings about distinctive opportunities.


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Comment

The stereospecific assembly of dynamic supramolecular snub cubes (SSCs) with chirality, which comprise 12 helical macrocycles bound by weak C–H hydrogen bonds, has been accomplished, with single crystals obtained via diastereoselective crystallization.




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Article published online:
25 March 2025

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