Adaptable Cavity Size.

The group of Prof. Kay Severin (LCS - Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry) show that a hexanuclear coordination cage can increase the size of its cavity from nearly zero to more than 500 Å3, which allows the encapsulation of two coronene molecules.

Mirtschin S. et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/ja1063789 (2010)