Lanthanide-organic pincer hosts with allosteric-controlled metal ion binding specificity.
Chen JiangShao-Jun HuLi-Peng ZhouJian YangQing-Fu SunPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2022)
A series of lanthanide-organic pincer hosts were synthesized, which showed allosteric-controlled metal ion binding selectivities due to the lanthanide-induced subtle changes of the central vacant binding site.