Cucurbiturils and Related Macrocycles

Kimoon Kim studied chemistry at Seoul National University (BS, 1976), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (MS, 1978), and Stanford University (PhD, 1986). After two-years of postdoctoral work at Northwestern University, he joined POSTECH where he is now a Distinguished University Professor. Recently, he was appointed as director of Center for Self-assembly and Complexity, Institute for Basic Science. He is a pioneer of cucurbituril chemistry publishing 130 papers on this topic since the mid-1990s. His current research focuses on developing novel functional materials and systems based on supramolecular chemistry.

Introduction: History and Development;

Synthesis of the Cucurbituril Family;

Host–Guest Chemistry of the Cucurbituril Family;

Cucurbituril Properties and the Thermodynamic Basis of Host–Guest Binding;

Cucurbiturils as Reaction Vessels;

Cucurbituril-based Sensors and Assays;

Cucurbituril Complexes of Redox Active Guests;

Coordination Chemistry of Cucurbiturils;

Gas Phase Cucurbituril Chemistry;

Drug Delivery Vehicles Based on Glycoluril Oligomers;

Machines, Switches and Delivery Devices Based on Cucurbit[6]uril and Bambus[6]uril;

Cucurbit[n]uril-based (n¼7 and 8) (Supra)molecular Switches;

Functionalisation and Self-assembly of Nanoparticles through Cucurbit[n]uril-based Binding Motifs;

Cucurbit[8]uril-based Polymeric Materials;

Cucurbit[6]uril-based Polymer Nanocapsules and Thin Films;

Cucurbiturils on Surfaces;

Molecular Recognition of Proteins by Cucurbiturils;

Supramolecular Latching System—Ultrastable and Controllable Synthetic Binding Pairs and Their Applications;

Cucurbit[n]uril-type Receptors: Influence of Building Block Exchange, Deletion, and Augmentation;

Hemicucurbiturils