Laboratoire MOLTECH-Anjou, Université d'Angers, CNRS UMR 6200, 2 Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers, France.
Chem Soc Rev. 2011 Jan;40(1):30-43. doi: 10.1039/b915145c. Epub 2010 Nov 1.
Intense current interest in supramolecular chemistry is devoted to the construction of molecular assemblies displaying controlled molecular motion associated to recognition. On this ground, molecular clips and tweezers have focused an increasing attention. This tutorial review points out the recent advances in the construction of always more sophisticated molecular clips and tweezers, illustrating their remarkably broad structural variety and focusing on their binding ability towards neutral guests. A particular attention is brought to recent findings in dynamic molecular tweezers whose recognition ability can be regulated by external stimuli. Porphyrin-based systems will not be covered here as this very active field has been recently reviewed.
目前，人们对超分子化学的兴趣非常浓厚，致力于构建展示受控分子运动和识别功能的分子组装体。在这一背景下，分子夹和分子钳受到了越来越多的关注。本文综述了近年来在构建越来越复杂的分子夹和分子钳方面的进展，展示了它们显著多样的结构，并重点介绍了它们与中性客体的结合能力。本文特别关注了最近在动态分子钳方面的发现，其识别能力可以通过外部刺激来调节。这里不包括基于卟啉的体系，因为这个非常活跃的领域最近已经被综述过了。
