Welcome to Functional Organic Cages (FOCs) Research Group

Supramolecular chemistry aims to exploit the intermolecular interaction as an alternative basis for control over chemical reactivity to emulate enzyme active sites. In this regard, Self-assembly is an efficient approach to fabricating complex molecular architectures of desired shapes and sizes using various non-covalent interactions. Yet, analogous covalent organic cage (COC) architectures are difficult to accomplish using traditional organic synthesis due to multistep reactions and poor product yields. Therefore, our research interest is exploring new ideas for synthesizing functionalized organic cage compounds and their derivatives. Thus, Dynamic Covalent Chemistry (DCC) has emerged as a powerful tool for developing efficient and economical methodologies for accessing complex and discrete organic architectures. 

In our synthetic laboratory, we are interested in developing effective ideas for the construction of Functional Organic Cages (FOCs) compounds with various sizes and shapes. Further, we are attentive to employing these porous organic cages in various promising disciplines such as gas storage, selective molecular separation, proton conductivity, explosives sensing, photochromism, heterogeneous catalysis, bio-molecule transporter, etc