Department of Chemistry and Centre of Self-Assembled Chemical Structures, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6, Canada.
Chem Soc Rev. 2011 Jan;40(1):191-206. doi: 10.1039/c0cs00022a. Epub 2010 Sep 29.
Hydrogen bonding is one of the most important non-covalent interactions in both biological (DNA, peptides, saccharides etc.) and artificial systems (various soft materials, host-guest architectures, molecular networks, etc.). Carboxylic acids are some of the most simple yet powerful hydrogen-bonding building blocks, that possess a particularly rich supramolecular chemistry. This tutorial review focuses on the structural diversity of supramolecular architectures accessible via hydrogen bonding of carboxylic acids, as observed both in single crystals using X-ray analysis and in monolayers on surfaces using scanning probe techniques. It provides a concise overview of the key concepts and principles of modern supramolecular design and is given in the form of case studies of finely selected literature examples, covering formation of macrocycles, chains, ladders, rotaxanes, catenanes, various 2D and 3D nets, host-guest systems and some applications thereof.
氢键是生物（DNA、肽、糖等）和人工系统（各种软物质、主体-客体结构、分子网络等）中最重要的非共价相互作用之一。羧酸是最简单但最强大的氢键构筑块之一，具有特别丰富的超分子化学。本综述重点介绍了通过羧酸氢键形成的超分子结构的结构多样性，这些结构可以通过 X 射线分析在单晶中观察到，也可以通过扫描探针技术在表面的单层中观察到。它提供了现代超分子设计的关键概念和原理的简明概述，并以精心挑选的文献实例的形式给出，涵盖了大环、链、梯、轮烷、索烃、各种 2D 和 3D 网、主体-客体系统及其一些应用的形成。
