Transition metals can be used as structural elements to build up anion receptors, enhancing H-bond donor tendencies, favouring the assembling of the molecular framework, inducing the formation of a cage. The versatile spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of the metal ion can provide a convenient signalling mechanism to communicate the occurrence of anion recognition.
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