Molecular Vessels

The properties and functions of chemical entities in confined nanospace are expected to be different from their conventional bulk properties due to restricted translational and rotational motions in the nanospace. My lecture will focus on the synthesis of nanoscopic water-soluble molecular vessels. Unusual photophysical behavior of photochromic compounds in the confined nanospace of a molecular vessel will be highlighted. Our recent efforts on designing chiral molecular vessels including their chiral recognition properties will be discussed in my lecture. My lecture will also focus on the use of different molecular vessels for the separation of isomeric polyaromatic hydrocarbons by simple aqueous extraction and for catalytic chemical transformations.

References:

[1] Banerjee, R.; Chakraborty, D.; Mukherjee, P. S. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 7692. 

[2] R. Saha, B. Mondal, P. S. Mukherjee, Chem. Rev. 2022, 122, 12244