A Celebration of Supramolecular Chemistry

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A Celebration of Supramolecular Chemistry

The articles collated into this special issue are dedicated to Professors Javier de Mendoza, Roeland Nolte and Julius Rebek Jnr, to celebrate the 65th birthday of these noted supramolecular chemists.

Authors from around the world were invited to contribute to this special issue by Professors A.E. Rowan and J.C.M. van Hest.

All of the contributions have been published in regular issues of ChemComm, CrystEngComm, Dalton Transactions, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry and New Journal of Chemistry, and then collated into this high quality issue for presentation at the 4th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (21st - 25th June), in Maastricht, Netherlands.

Professor Javier de Mendoza, group Leader at the ICIQ (Tarragona), has been Chevalier de l'Ordre du M�rite of France since 1994 and was awarded with the Research National Prize and Medal of the Spanish Royal Chemical Society in 1999. Co-author of more than a hundred international publications, Professor de Mendoza pioneered the introduction of Supramolecular Chemistry in Spain and his research interests range from molecular recognition to calixarene chemistry, self-assembly and catalyst design.

Professor Roeland J. M. Nolte, who was Chairman of the Chemical Communications Editorial Board 2004 to 2007, is head of the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Nijmegen. Since 1994 he has also been an Adjunct-professor of Supramolecular Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology and in 2003 he was awarded the first Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science Chair in Chemistry. The Nolte group has published over 500 articles on their research at the interfaces of Supramolecular, Macromolecular and Biomimetic Chemistry.

Professor Julius Rebek, Jr. is Director of The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology. He devised the three-phase test for reactive intermediates, developed cleft-like structures for studies in molecular recognition and introduced synthetic, self-replicating molecules. He has won numerous awards and continues to work in molecular recognition and self-assembling systems.

Chemical Communications articles

General application of mechanochemistry to templated solid-state reactivity: rapid and solvent-free access to crystalline supermolecules
Manza B. J. Atkinson, Dejan-Kreimir Buar, Anatoliy N. Sokolov, Tomislav Frii, Chanceity N. Robinson, Mahmood Y. Bilal, Naif G. Sinada, Asher Chevannes and Leonard R. MacGillivray,�Chem. Commun., 2008, 5713
DOI: 10.1039/b812728j

Metal�organic anion receptors: trans-functionalised platinum complexes
Matthew G. Fisher, Philip A. Gale, Mark E. Light and Stephen J. Loeb,�Chem. Commun., 2008, 5695
DOI: 10.1039/b816002c

Templated amplification of a naphthalenediimide-based receptor from a donor�acceptor dynamic combinatorial library in water
Ho Yu Au-Yeung, Paolo Pengo, G. Dan Panto, Sijbren Otto and Jeremy K. M. Sanders,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 419
DOI: 10.1039/b816979a

Real-time determination of chloride anion concentration in aqueous-DMSO using a pyrrole-strapped calixpyrrole anion receptor
Dae-Wi Yoon, Dustin E. Gross, Vincent M. Lynch, Chang-Hee Lee, Philip C. Bennett and Jonathan L. Sessler,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 1109
DOI: 10.1039/b818077f

A simple approach towards one-dimensional mesoporous carbon with superior electrochemical capacitive activity
Yanyu Liang, Xinliang Feng, Linjie Zhi, Ute Kolb and Klaus M�llen,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 809
DOI: 10.1039/b819202b

Exploring the limits of encapsulation within hexameric pyrogallol[4]arene nano-capsules
Scott J. Dalgarno, Tamas Szabo, Ali Siavosh-Haghighi, Carol A. Deakyne, John E. Adams and Jerry L. Atwood,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 1339
DOI: 10.1039/b819276f

An organogel system can control the stereochemical course of anthracene photodimerization
Arnab Dawn, Norifumi Fujita, Shuichi Haraguchi, Kazuki Sada and Seiji Shinkai,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 2100
DOI: 10.1039/b820565e

Playing with isostructurality: from tectons to molecular alloys and composite crystals
Pierre Dechambenoit, Sylvie Ferlay, Nathalie Kyritsakas and Mir Wais Hosseini,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 1559
DOI: 10.1039/b821773d

Non-covalent interactions between iodo-perfluorocarbons and hydrogen bond acceptors
Rafel Cabot and Christopher A. Hunter,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 2005
DOI: 10.1039/b822284c

Self-assembly of an M₆L₁₂ coordination cube
Kosuke Suzuki, Masahide Tominaga, Masaki Kawano and Makoto Fujita,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 1638
DOI: 10.1039/b822311d

Multicolour self-assembled particles of fluorene-based bolaamphiphiles
Robert Abbel, Rob van der Weegen, E. W. Meijer and Albertus P. H. J. Schenning,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 1697
DOI: 10.1039/b822943k

Amphiphilic conjugated thiophenes for self-assembling antenna systems in water
Patrick van Rijn, Tom J. Savenije, Marc C. A. Stuart and Jan H. van Esch,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 2163
DOI: 10.1039/b823268g

Size and geometry dependent protein�nanoparticle self-assembly
Mrinmoy De, Oscar R. Miranda, Subinoy Rana and Vincent M. Rotello,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 2157
DOI: 10.1039/b900552h

Quantitative formation of [4]pseudorotaxanes from two rods and two bis-macrocycles incorporating porphyrinic plates between the rings
Jean-Paul Collin, Fabien Durola, Julien Frey, Val�rie Heitz, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Christian Tock and Yann Trolez,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 1706
DOI: 10.1039/b901482a

Molecular tectonics: 3-D organisation of decanuclear silver nanoclusters
Marina N. Kozlova, Sylvie Ferlay, Nathalie Kyritsakas, Mir Wais Hosseini, Svetlana E. Solovieva, Igor S. Antipin and Alexander I. Konovalov,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 2514
DOI: 10.1039/b902267h

Assembling p-type molecules on single wall carbon nanotubes for photovoltaic devices
Jennifer E. Klare, Ian P. Murray, Joshua Goldberger and Samuel I. Stupp,�Chem. Commun., 2009, 3705
DOI: 10.1039/b904863d

CrystEngComm articles

Structural similarity of hydrogen-bonded and metal-coordinated abiotic base pairs allows oligonucleotide-like mutual stacking,
Marc-Oliver M. Piepenbrock, Kirsty M. Anderson, Benedict C. R. Sansam, Nigel Clarke and Jonathan W. Steed,�CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, 118
DOI: 10.1039/b815252g

Dalton Transactions articles

Synthesis and structural studies of metallamacrotricycles based on a metacyclophane in 1,3-alternate conformation bearing four imidazolyl units
J�r�me Ehrhart, Jean-Marc Planeix, Nathalie Kyritsakas-Gruber and Mir Wais Hosseini,�Dalton Trans., 2009, 2552
DOI: 10.1039/b816053h

SUPRAPhos ligands for the regioselective rhodium catalyzed hydroformylation of styrene forming the linear aldehyde
P. Elsbeth Goudriaan, Mark Kuil, Xiao-Bin Jiang, Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen and Joost N. H. Reek,�Dalton Trans., 2009, 1801
DOI: 10.1039/b818665k

New Journal of Chemistry articles

Anion induced displacement studies in naphthalene diimide containing interpenetrated and interlocked structures
Kathleen M. Mullen, Jason J. Davis and Paul D. Beer,�New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 769
DOI: 10.1039/b819322c

Guest molecule entrapment by both capsule and hydrocarbon sidechains in self-assembled pyrogallol[4]arenes
Oleg V. Kulikov, Nigam P. Rath, Dan Zhou, I. Alexandru Carasel and George W. Gokel,�New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 1563
DOI: 10.1039/b823160e

Stereochemistry and thermodynamics of the inclusion of aliphatic and aromatic anionic guests in a tetracationic calix[4]arene in acidic and neutral aqueous solutions
Carmelo Sgarlata, Carmela Bonaccorso, Fabio Giuseppe Gulino, Valeria Zito, Giuseppe Arena and Domenico Sciotto,�New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 991
DOI: 10.1039/b901164c

Cyclic oligomers based on complementary Zn(II) and Sn(IV)-porphyrins
Gerald A. Metselaar, Pablo Ballester and Javier de Mendoza,�New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 777
DOI: 10.1039/b902408p

Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry articles

Ruthenium-based metallacrown complexes for the selective detection of lithium ions in water and in serum by fluorescence spectroscopy
S�bastien Rochat, Zacharias Grote and Kay Severin,�Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1147
DOI: 10.1039/b820592b

New donor�acceptor chromophores by formal [2+2] cycloaddition of donor-substituted alkynes to dicyanovinyl derivatives
Peter D. Jarowski, Yi-Lin Wu, Corinne Boudon, Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht, Maurice Gross, W. Bernd Schweizer and Fran�ois Diederich,�Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1312
DOI: 10.1039/b821230a

Fluorescent carbazolylurea anion receptors
Jennifer R. Hiscock, Claudia Caltagirone, Mark E. Light, Michael B. Hursthouse and Philip A. Gale,�Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1781
DOI: 10.1039/b900178f