Giant self-assembling capsules

8 Atwood, J. L., MacGillivray, L. R., Structural classification and general principles for the design of spherical molecular hosts , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1999, 38, 1018-1033. 

The quest towards ever larger cavity systems, especially those stable in solution, has leaned increasingly more heavily upon self-assembly as a means towards synthesising assemblies capable of encapsulating large spatial volumes. Some of the largest cavities formed to date are based on the very 

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