DOI: 10.1039/d3sc02032k ISSN:
Solvent-controlled formation of alkali and alkali-earth-secured cucurbituril/guest trimers
Doroteja Lončarić, Fahimeh Movahedifar, Jakub Radek Štoček, Martin Dračínský, Josef Cvačka, Shanshan Guan, Benjamin J. Bythell, Ivana Císařová, Eric Masson, Jiří Kaleta- General Chemistry
Cucurbit[7]uril complexes aggregate into well-defined trimers in dimethyl sulfoxide in the presence of a selection of cations, as long as the host cavity is filled with a guest that leaves one carbonylated portal available for cation binding.