Selective encapsulation of carboxylic acid dimers within a size-regulable resorcinarene-based hemicarcerand.
Kentaro HaradaYudai OnoRyo SekiyaTakeharu HainoPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2024)
A cavity within a resorcinarene-based hemicarcerand was contracted and expanded through conformational changes induced by the complexation and decomplexation, allowing self-sorting of homo- and heterodimeric carboxylic acid pairs.