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Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn discusses the field of supramolecular chemistry, which involves intermolecular bonding and the structures and functions that emerge from molecular receptors binding substrate species. Numerous receptors have been developed that perform molecular recognition and may catalyze reactions or transport processes selectively. When combined with polymolecular organization, recognition opens possibilities for designing molecular and supramolecular devices using functional components. Beyond using preorganized molecular receptors, supramolecular chemistry also aims to design self-organizing systems that spontaneously generate well-defined architectures from their components under certain conditions, with the necessary information stored in the components themselves.

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Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn discusses the field of supramolecular chemistry, which involves intermolecular bonding and the structures and functions that emerge from molecular receptors binding substrate species. Numerous receptors have been developed that perform molecular recognition and may catalyze reactions or transport processes selectively. When combined with polymolecular organization, recognition opens possibilities for designing molecular and supramolecular devices using functional components. Beyond using preorganized molecular receptors, supramolecular chemistry also aims to design self-organizing systems that spontaneously generate well-defined architectures from their components under certain conditions, with the necessary information stored in the components themselves.

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Prof.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Supramolecular Chemistry
Concepts and Perspectives
Jean-Marie Lehn
Collège de France, 11, Place Marcelin Berthelot, Paris and
ISIS, Université Louis Pasteur, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, Strasbourg

Beyond molecular chemistry, based on the covalent bond, lies the field of
supramolecular chemistry, the chemistry of the intermolecular bond and of the
structures and functions of the supermolecules formed by the binding of
substrate species to a molecular receptor.

Numerous receptors capable of selectively binding specific substrates have


been developed. They perform molecular recognition which rests on the
molecular information stored in the interacting species. Suitably functionalized
receptors may perform supramolecular catalysis and selective transport
processes. In combination with polymolecular organisation, recognition opens
ways towards the design of molecular and supramolecular devices based on
functional (photoactive, electroactive, ionoactive, etc.) components.

Supramolecular chemistry has relied on more or less preorganised molecular


receptors for effecting molecular recognition, catalysis and transport
processes. A step beyond consists in the design of systems undergoing self-
organisation, i.e. systems capable of spontaneously generating a well-defined
supramolecular architecture from its components in a given set of conditions.
The molecular information necessary for the process to take place must be
stored in the components and acts through selective molecular interactions.

The design of molecular information dependent, “programmed” and functional


self-organising systems represents new horizons in chemistry towards a
science of informed and organized matter.

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