Department of Chemistry, Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Sep 25;49(74):8133-44. doi: 10.1039/c3cc44350g.
Building on established supramolecular chemistry, metal coordination and organometallic chemistry have been widely explored for supramolecular polymers and nanostructures. Increasingly, research has demonstrated that this approach is promising for the synthesis of novel materials with functions and properties derived from metal elements and their coordination structures. Unique self-assembling behaviour and unexpected supramolecular structures are frequently discovered due to multiple non-covalent interactions in addition to metal coordination. However, an explicit understanding of the synergistic effects of non-covalent interactions for designed synthesis of metal containing assemblies with structure correlated properties remains a challenge to be addressed. Recent literature in the area is highlighted in this review in order to illustrate newly explored concepts and stress the importance of developing well understood and controlled supramolecular chemistry for designed synthesis.
在已建立的超分子化学基础上，金属配位和有机金属化学已被广泛探索用于超分子聚合物和纳米结构。越来越多的研究表明，这种方法对于合成具有功能和特性的新型材料具有广阔的前景，这些功能和特性源于金属元素及其配位结构。由于除了金属配位之外还有多种非共价相互作用，因此经常会发现独特的自组装行为和意想不到的超分子结构。然而，对于具有结构相关性质的含金属组装体的设计合成，明确理解非共价相互作用的协同效应仍然是一个有待解决的挑战。本文综述了该领域的最新文献，以说明新探索的概念，并强调发展理解透彻和可控的超分子化学对于设计合成的重要性。
