title: Capsoplexes: encapsulating complexes via guest recognition.
abstract: A new dinuclear Ni-NHC complex is able to selectively recognise and self-assemble with guests via tennis-ball like encapsulation, exemplarily demonstrated employing halides. Addition of chloride or bromide leads to the formation of capsules with small cavities which are stabilised through non-classical hydrogen bonds and Coulomb interactions between the anion and the metal centres.
authors.affiliation: Catalysis Research Center & Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, Ernst-Otto-Fischer-Str. 1, 85747 Garching bei München, Germany. alexander.poethig@tum.de.
authors.forename: Philipp J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Altmann
authors.affiliation: Catalysis Research Center & Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, Ernst-Otto-Fischer-Str. 1, 85747 Garching bei München, Germany. alexander.poethig@tum.de.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pöthig