Active template synthesis

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D4CS00430B, Review Article Romain Jamagne, Martin J. Power, Zhi-Hui Zhang, Germán Zango, Benjamin Gibber, David A. Leigh The active template synthesis of rotaxanes, catenanes and knots exploits the dual ability of metals, or particular arrangements of functional groups, to serve as both a template and a catalyst to assemble and covalently capture interlocked molecules.