Building on architectural principles for three-dimensional metallosupramolecular construction

Over the last two decades the field of metallosupramolecular self-assembly has emerged as a promising research area for the development of intricate, three-dimensional structures of increasing complexity and functionality. The advent of this area of research has strongly benefited from design principles that considered the ligand geometry and metal coordination geometry, thus opening up routes towards rationally designed classical (Archimedean or Platonic) architectures. In this tutorial review, we will focus on more recent developments in the design and synthesis of three-dimensional suprastructures which have non-classical architectures (non-Archimedean/Platonic solids) and we will explicitly address the…

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  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  Award: EP/J001163/1