Switchable molecular tweezers: design and applications

• Pablo Msellem,
• Maksym Dekthiarenko,
• Nihal Hadj Seyd and
• Guillaume Vives

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 504–539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.45

• fullerene complexation. Other halides (Br− and F−) also allowed C60 and C70 complexation while tetrabutylammonium cations inhibited the fullerenes' complexation by competing for the cavity of the calix [72]. These calixpyrrole-based tweezers provide a good example of ON/OFF molecular sensors for neutral

Naphthalene diimides with improved solubility for visible light photoredox catalysis

• Barbara Reiß and
• Hans-Achim Wagenknecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2043–2051, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.201

• self-assembly [43][44], as molecular sensors [45][46][47] and for organic electronics [48][49], but yet nearly completely unexplored for photoredox catalysis. Core-unsubstituted NDIs are colorless compounds with high extinction coefficients at the border between UV-A and visible light. Their

Attempted synthesis of a meta-metalated calix[4]arene

• Christopher D. Jurisch and
• Gareth E. Arnott

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1996–2002, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.195

• resulted in applications in several fields, including, amongst others, the use as ligands in transition metal catalysis [2][3], in solid-phase gas sorption [4], as molecular sensors [5][6] and as biomimetic compounds [7][8]. Our own interest has been in the synthesis of inherently chiral calix[4]arenes

Homo- and hetero-difunctionalized β-cyclodextrins: Short direct synthesis in gram scale and analysis of regiochemistry

• Gábor Benkovics,
• Mihály Bálint,
• Éva Fenyvesi,
• Erzsébet Varga,
• Szabolcs Béni,
• Konstantina Yannakopoulou and
• Milo Malanga

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 710–720, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.66

• selective functionalization of these cyclic oligosaccharides can remarkably improve their complexing ability and enables their application as artificial enzymes [2][3][4], chiral resolving agents [5], stimuli-responsive materials [6], molecular sensors [7] or bioactive hosts with significant emerging

Supramolecular chemistry at the interface of biology, materials and medicine

• Eric V. Anslyn and
• Steven C. Zimmerman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1101–1102, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.105

• ; molecular recognition; molecular sensors; What do art, auto-mechanics, a rural Australian and Chinese village, two civil wars, and house building have to do with supramolecular chemistry? Unless you are an avid cover-to-cover reader of the Thematic Series of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry and

Bright molecules for sensing, computing and imaging: a tale of two once-troubled cities

• A. Prasanna de Silva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2774–2784, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.298

• miniature information processor, e.g., a logic gate [16][19][20][21]. Indeed, molecular sensors and logic gates are related in several ways [16]. Both of them are rooted in two (or higher) -state equilibria between free and bound forms of a molecule, so that sensors become the simplest logic gates. However

Star-shaped tetrathiafulvalene oligomers towards the construction of conducting supramolecular assembly

• Masahiko Iyoda and
• Masashi Hasegawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1596–1613, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.175

• functional dyes [22][23]. Furthermore, various multifunctional TTF-based supramolecular architectures have been designed and synthesized to realize molecular sensors, redox switches, multi-input systems for logic gates, electrochemically-driven conformational controls, molecular clips and tweezers, and redox

• realize electrochemically-driven conformational control, redox-controlled gelation processes, redox switches, and molecular sensors. Furthermore, semiconductive fibers and rods of TTFs can be utilized for nanosized electric wires and wirings in nanoelectronics. The next key innovation in TTF-based

Superstructures of fluorescent cyclodextrin via click-reaction

• Arkadius Maciollek,
• Helmut Ritter and
• Rainer Beckert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 827–831, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.94

• used as potentially biological markers, as molecular sensors, or for chiral recognition in aqueous solution [11][12][13]. Thus, in this present paper we describe the spectroscopic and structural behavior of a “CD-Click-Fluorophore” in the absence and presence of a competitive guest in water. Results