摘要
Organic supramolecular chemistry based on syn-thetic macrocycles has been playing a crucial role in chemistry,biology,materials science,and environ-mental science.As a rapid developing class of syn-thetic macrocycles with intrinsic characteristics and excellent properties first discovered in 2008,pil-lararenes(or pillarenes)have become more and more attractive on account of their unique features and great potentials in fabricating functional materials and devices.The past seven years have witnessed the innovative efforts of Chinese supramolecular chem-ists in developing and revolutionizing pillararene chemistry,and in particular,in seeking the real appli-cations of pillararenes in many research disciplines.
