Abstract
Imidazolium based receptors selectively recognize anions, and have received more and more attention. In 2006 and 2010, we reviewed the mechanism and progress of imidazolium salt recognition of anions, respectively. In the past ten years, new developments have emerged in this area, including some new imidazolium motifs and the identification of a wider variety of biological anions. In this review, we discuss the progress of imidazolium receptors for the recognition of anions in the period of 2010-2019 and highlight the trends in this area. We first classify receptors based on motifs, including some newly emerging receptors, as well as new advances in existing receptor types at this stage. Then we discuss separately according to the types of anions, including ATP, GTP, DNA and RNA. This journal is
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 589-618 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | Chemical Society Reviews |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 7 Jan 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was supported by grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MSIP) (No. 2012R1A3A2048814 for J. Y.). Z. X. thanks the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22078314, 21878286). Y. H. thanks the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21807093).
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