"Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly: Design and Serendipity" by Prof. Mitsuhiko Shionoya, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Department of Chemistry

Abstract

Supramolecular self-assembly of a certain number of designer organic/inorganic building blocks by directional interactions such as metal coordination is the basis of elaborate molecular systems. Most molecular architectures are purpose-designed in light of the size, shape, and surface natures of building blocks as well as chemical environments. On the other hand, we have occasionally come across unexpected structures and functions as a result of more complicated self-assembly processes than expected, which have often opened a new frontier in chemistry. The present lecture will focus on complexity in coordination-driven self-assembly by taking some of our recent examples of artificial metallo-DNAs,^1-4 metallo-containers,^5,6 molecular gearing systems,^7-9 and metal macrocycle framework (MMF).^10-12

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