A 3D Hybrid Network Containing Large Spherical Cavities Formed through a Combination of Metal Coordination and Hydrogen Bonding

摘要

Assembling organic, organometallic, and/or inorganic building blocks to supramolecular structures through metal-ligand binding, hydrogen bonds, or π-π interactions has become a powerful tool for the generation of large cagelike molecules or microporous substances with nanoscale cavities. Although important progress has been made in the construction of such assemblies by applying any one of these intermolecular interactions individually, a lot of research dealing with combinations of two or all three of them can still be carried out, thus allowing the construction of an almost infinite number of new supramolecular entities.