title: Sensing, threading, orienting, and cutting polymers with rigid-rod pores.
abstract: This short review describes synthetic pores that are made from rigid-rod molecules and can bind oligo-and polymers such as polyacetylenes, p-oligophenyls, terpenoids, polypeptides, polysaccharides, and oligonucleotides. The spotlight is on recent breakthroughs to image the longtime elusive pore-polymer host-guest complexes as single giant pseudorotaxanes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Stefan.Matile@chiorg.unige.ch
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matile
authors.forename: Naomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Jiri
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mareda
authors.forename: Jiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kumaki
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yashima
mesh_terms: D049990:Membrane Transport Modulators / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D016062:Porosity; D043862:Rotaxanes / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D049990:Membrane Transport Modulators; D011108:Polymers; D043862:Rotaxanes