HETEROCYCLES IN ENCAPSULATION AND ASSEMBLY

摘要

Described is the behavior of self-assembled capsules held together by hydrogen bonds.The capsules can be spherical or cylindrical and they reversibly encaplulate suitable guest species in organic solvents.Selectivity to molecular shape and length leads to well-defind complexes of two different guests within the capsule..These lead to their use as catalysts and to the synthesis of multiparticle assemblies.The use of charged guest species for assembly characterization in the gas phase is also described.