title: Recent progress in the construction of cavity-cored supramolecular metallodendrimers via coordination-driven self-assembly.
abstract: In the past few years, a new family of supramolecular metallodendrimers, which possess cavities with well-defined shape and size, have attracted widespread attention. Coordination-driven self-assembly has proven to be a simple and highly efficient approach for the preparation of cavity-cored supramolecular metallodendrimers. This feature article focuses on the recent progress in the construction of a variety of cavity-cored supramolecular metallodendrimers via coordination-driven self-assembly. The characterization and hierarchical self-assembly behaviour of such metallodendrimers are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University, 3663 N. Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, 200062, People's Republic of China. hbyang@chem.ecnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Li-Jun
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hai-Bo
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Yang