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Macrocycles have been a mainstay of supramolecular chemistry since its beginnings. The latest addition to this rank of host compounds is the result of a simple and high-yielding one-step


method that produces a star-shaped macrocycle able to bind anionic guests — and has the potential for generating a wide range of anion-responsive structures. Access through your institution


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In the version of this News & Views previously published, in Fig. 1 the structure for the cyanostar macrocycle was missing a bond. Corrected in the HTML and PDF versions after print. _


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AFFILIATIONS * James A. Wisner is in the Department of Chemistry at Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada, James A. Wisner Authors * James A. Wisner View author publications


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