Front Cover: In article number 2000670 by Yoshihiko Kimura and Takaya Terashima, hexa(ethylene glycol) di(meth)acrylates efficiently interact with a potassium cation to dynamically form pseudo cyclic monomers. Combined such supramolecular technique, RAFT cyclopolymerization of template is developed successfully synthesize cyclopolymers comprising 24-membered rings. The serve as thermoresponsive...

Ethylene glycol has a transiently chiral, asymmetric global minimum structure, but it favors a highly symmetric, achiral dimer arrangement which has not been considered or found in previous quantum-chemical studies. Complementary FTIR and Raman spectroscopy in supersonic jets allows for the detection and straightforward assignment of this four-fold hydrogen-bonded dimer, which introduces an int...

Tetraarylethylene derivatives are emerging as an increasingly important family of supramolecular building blocks in both solution phase and the solid state. The utility of tetraarylethylenes stems from appealing structural features (rigidity and symmetry) and their propensity to exhibit aggregation induced emission (AIE). In an effort to investigate the luminescent sensing ability of heteroarom...

Discotic molecules, which self-assemble in water into columnar supramolecular polymers, emerged as an alternative platform for the organization of proteins. Here, a monovalent discotic decorated with one single biotin was synthesized to study the self-assembling multivalency of this system in regard to streptavidin. Next to tetravalent streptavidin, monovalent streptavidin was used to study the...

The design and synthesis of suitable block copolymers, such as those consisting of both flexible components and rigid components, as building blocks for highly ordered supramolecular architectures have attracted considerable attention in the past several decades. The resulting supramolecular structures can potentially offer various functionalities by means of their photophysical, electrochemica...