Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield.
Dalton Trans. 2011 Dec 7;40(45):12005-16. doi: 10.1039/c1dt10876j. Epub 2011 Oct 10.
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the metal-ion directed construction of discrete molecular assemblies. Once the versatility of this approach for the construction of hitherto inaccessible molecular architectures was demonstrated, work towards fully functional systems rapidly developed. Since these architectures have a wide range of possible applications, this perspective review will focus on one important aspect of this research: the construction of hosts with optical or electrochemical sensing outputs. As this overview will illustrate, research in this area is now producing working examples of sensors for variety of ionic, molecular, and biomolecular guests.
近年来，人们对金属离子导向的离散分子组装体的构建产生了浓厚的兴趣。一旦这种方法在构建以前无法获得的分子结构方面的多功能性得到证明，针对完全功能性系统的研究就迅速发展起来。由于这些结构具有广泛的潜在应用，因此本综述将重点关注该研究的一个重要方面：构建具有光学或电化学传感输出的主体。正如本综述将说明的那样，该领域的研究目前正在为各种离子、分子和生物分子客体生产出有实际应用价值的传感器。
