Tailored charge-neutral self-assembled L₂Zn₂ container for taming oxalate

• David Ocklenburg and
• David Van Craen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3007–3015, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.250

• selectively over other dicarboxylates by maintaining the receptor stability. This study highlights the importance of a highly modular receptor design so that tailored hosts can be designed to tackle the recognition of challenging competitive analytes. Keywords: anion recognition; charge-neutral host

• this issue is to exchange the counteranions with less competitive ones, such as replacing tetrafluoroborate with tetrakis[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate [64]. Alternatively, an emerging solution is the utilization of ligand–metal combinations that self-assemble into charge-neutral host systems