An in silico study shows that polycyclic hydrocarbon cage compounds, tetraasteranes, can be effective scaffolds for drug discovery.
The high nuclearity cubane-assembled Mn-oxo clusters serve as effective precursors for the preparation of monodispersed Mn3O4 nanocrystals through the colloidal chemistry approach.
A rare dysprosium(III) metal–organic framework constructed using dysprosium(III) cubanes as secondary building units has been reported to exhibit field-supported single-molecule magnet (SMM) behavior and an unprecedented ecu topology.
This review summarises and highlights recent advances (year > 2015) in the medicinal chemistry applications of bridged polycyclic 3D bioisosteres of ortho-phenyl rings.
The first examples of cubane containing interlocked molecules are reported—prepared by hydrogen bond templation with cubane-1,3-dicarboxamides replacing isophthalamide motifs.