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Our next step applying non-statistical self-assembly to ⚡️light-driven charge separation in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! Donors and acceptors in heteroleptic coordination cages, electrochemistry, time-resolved spectroscopy!
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Right in time for X-mas 🎄: find #JustAccepted in @jacs.acspublications.org how @shingkwam.bsky.social stuffs crown ether-decorated Pd2L4 cages with cations and anions at the same time!
Happy Holidays! @tu-dortmund.de
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Registration for SupraChem2026 is open!
Join us in Dortmund from March 8th - 10th 2026 for sharing the latest developments in supramolecular chemistry, including poster presentations, about 20 contributed talks and prize lectures for the new GDCh SupraChem PhD award!

Read now in Chem @cellpress.bsky.social how @eliebenchimol.bsky.social uses adjacent backbone interactions (ABI) to control self-sorting of chiral heteroleptic Pd3A2B4 isosceles triangles („star destroyers“) and Pd4A4C4 pseudo-tetrahedra:
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Now online as 🌶️ Hot Paper 📄 in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: see how we combine Pd(II) and Pt(II) nodes with dynamic covalent chemistry to assemble highly robust interpenetrated double cages capable of abstracting halides from organic substrates:
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We made it! Thanks to everybody in this wonderful team!

Many thanks to GDCh, Founding Team & our sister societies (RSC MASC, SCF Groupe de Chim. Supramol.)! @polbesenius.bsky.social @cleverlab.bsky.social @vkrbek.bsky.social @annajmcconnell.bsky.social @pappasgroup.bsky.social @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social @niemeyergroup.bsky.social , Mastalerz, Würthner

Supramolekulare Chemie | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.

Supramolecular chemistry has officially "grown up" in Germany. On behalf of the 10-person Founding Team👇, I am happy to announce the creation of section SupraChem within the German Chemical Society! 🍾 GDCh members please consider joining asap via www.gdch.de/suprachem @gdch.bsky.social

Self-assembly, interlocking, interconversion and anion-binding catalysis in phenoxazine-based Pd2L4 and Pd4L8 coordination cages - Nature Communications While Pd2L4-type coordination cages tend to form interlocked dimers, isolation and characterization of both the cage and its interlocked dimer is very challenging. Herein, the authors report the synth...

Finally, @cleverlab.bsky.social explore the mechanism of interpenetration of Pd2L4 coordination cages mediated by changes in solvation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 5/5

Congratulations Elie, well deserved!

Last Wednesday I had the honor of receiving the @solvationsci.bsky.social PhD award from the hands of Dr. Klaus Engel during the new year's reception of RESOLV at the TU Dortmund. It rewards my contribution on studying solvation effects on caged with @cleverlab.bsky.social
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Happy to share that I was awarded the Bayer Promotion PhD prize from Technische Universität Dortmund for my research with @cleverlab.bsky.social
Honored to receive this and nice be back in Dortmund for a short time. 🧑‍🔬🙏🏻

Guest Segregation in Heteromeric Multicage Systems Dynamically interconvertible metallo-supramolecular multicomponent assemblies, coexisting orthogonally in solution, serve as simplified mimics for complex networks found in biological systems. Buildin...

Happy to see the 2nd chapter of my thesis work with @cleverlab.bsky.social out in JACS.
We show how a multicage system can be used to segregate multiple guests.
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We found a new catenation mode of Pd4L8 interpenetrated double cages: instead of a classic D4-symmetric dimer, the staggered structure has C2h symmetry, stabilized by non-covalent interactions. Just out in @angew_chem Support: RESOLV @SolvationSci @desy
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Winners of this year’s Clever Lab christmas party riddle (paper chase) through the entire chemistry building (thanks Maike for organizing!) 🎄

Results of a beautiful collab with @ThorriGunnlaugs Dublin and C. Stein @TU_Muenchen #JustAccepted in @angew_chem 🎉 @elie_bench @HelzOConnor @BogoNicola show a Tröger base Pd2L4 cage as small chiral host inducing CD on fullerenes
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The Clever Lab @ TU Dortmund is now on BlueSky!