Sensing, templation and self-assembly by macrocyclic ligand systems

Abstract

For a number of years the research interests of the Beer group have covered many areas of macrocyclic coordination and supramolecular chemistry. This article reviews our latest results of current research by focusing on three major sections: sensing of cations and anions; anion templated assembly of pseudorotaxanes and rotaxanes, and metaldirected self-assembly using the dithiocarbamate ligand. © 2005 Springer. Printed in the Netherlands.