Contents
Volume 1
Part I Supramolecular Assemblies Based on Crown Ethers and
Cyclophanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1 Water-Soluble Aromatic Crown Ethers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Ling Chen and Yu Liu
2 Polypseudorotaxanes Constructed by Crown Ethers . . . . . . . . . . .
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Hong-Guang Fu, Yong Chen, and Yu Liu
3 Host-Guest Chemistry of a Tetracationic Cyclophane, Namely,
Cyclobis (paraquat-p-phenylene) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Hao Li, Tianyu Jiao, and Libo Shen
4 Mechanically Self-Locked Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Sheng-Hua Li, Yong Chen, and Yu Liu
5 Photoluminescent Crown Ether Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Yan Zhou, Bang-Tun Zhao, and Yu Liu
Part II Supramolecular Assemblies Based on Macrocyclic
Arenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6 Triptycene-Derived Macrocyclic Arenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Ying Han and Chuan-Feng Chen
7 Emerging Macrocyclic Arenes Related to Calixarenes and
Pillararenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Dihua Dai, Jia-Rui Wu, and Ying-Wei Yang
8 Supramolecular Medicine of Diverse Calixarene Derivatives . . . . 201
Jie Gao and Dong-Sheng Guo
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