Ru(ii)-cornered coordination cage that senses guest inclusion by color change.
Upon guest recognition, a self-assembled hexa-ruthenium coordination cage shows a chromic shift resulting from the slight conformational change in the panel ligand.
Yamashita
Ken-Ichi
K
Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Kawano
Masaki
M
Fujita
Makoto
M