Publications

Selected Publications

Controlling Photoreactions with Restricted Spaces and Weak Intermolecular Forces: Exquisite Product Selectivity during Oxidation of Olefins by Singlet Oxygen Natarajan, A.; Kaanumalle, L. S.; Jockusch, S.; Gibb, C. L. D.; Gibb, B. C.; Turro, N. J. and Ramamurthy, V. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 4132-4133. go to article

Straight-Chain Alkanes Template the Assembly of Water-Soluble Nano-Capsules, Gibb C. L. D.; Gibb, B. C., Chem. Commun. 2007, 1635-1637. go to article

Electrophilic Substitution of Deep Cavity Cavitands: Selective Exo Functionalization of Molecular Concavity Srinivasan, K. and Gibb, B. C., Organic Letters, 2007, 9, 745-748. go to article

Templated Assembly of Water-Soluble Nano-Capsules: Inter-Phase Sequestration, Storage, and Separation of Hydrocarbon Gases, Gibb, C. L. D., Gibb, B. C., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 16498-16499. go to article and go to highlight in Nature Nanotechnology: Nanocapsules:gas powered. doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.204, 22 December 2006.

A Deuterated Deep-Cavity Cavitand Confirms the Importance of C-H×××X-R Hydrogen Bonds in Guest Binding, Laughrey, Z. R.; Upton, T. G.; Gibb, B. C., Chem. Commun. 2006, 970-972. go to article

A Hydrophobic Nano-Capsule Controls the Photophysics of Aromatic Molecules By Suppressing their Favored Solution Pathways, Kaanumalle, L. S.; Gibb, C. L. D.; Gibb, B. C.; Ramamurthy, V., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 3674-3675. go to article

Controlling Photochemistry With Distinct Hydrophobic Nano-Environments, Kaanumalle, L. S., Gibb, C. L. D., Gibb, B. C., Ramamurthy, V., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 14366-14367. go to article. And go to Nature Highlight…

Well Defined, Organic Nano-Environments in Water: The Hydrophobic Effect Drives a Capsular Assembly Gibb, C. L. D., Gibb, B. C., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 11408-11409. go to article.

Resorcinarenes as Templates: The Synthesis of Large Crown Ethers, Li, X., Upton, T.; Gibb, C. L. D.; Gibb, B. C., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125 (3), 650-651. go to article

Controlling the Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Orientation of Guests within Large Synthetic Hydrophobic Pockets, Gibb, C. L. D.; Li, X.; Gibb, B. C., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US), 2002, 99, 4857-4862. go to article

Guest Binding and Orientation within Open Nano-scale Hosts, Laughrey, Z. R.; Gibb, C. L. D.; Senechal, T.; Gibb, B. C. Chemistry: A European Journal, 2003, 9, 130-139. go to article.

C-H...X-R (X = Cl, Br and I) Hydrogen Bonds Drive the Complexation of a Nano-Scale Molecular Basket, Gibb, C. L. D.; Stevens, E. D.; Gibb, B. C. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 5849-5850. go to article

Dendronized Supramolecular Nano-Capsules: pH Independent, Water-Soluble, Deep-Cavity Cavitands Assemble via the Hydrophobic Effect, Giles, M. D.; Liu, S.; Emanuel, R. L.; Gibb, B. C.; and Grayson, S. M., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 14430-14431. go to article.

Water Inside a Hydrophobic Cavitand Molecule, Ewell, J.; Gibb, B. C.; Rick, S., J. Phys. Chem. B, 2008, 112, 10272-10279. go to article.

Templation of the Excited State Chemistry of a-(n-alkyl)-dibenzylketones: How Guest Packing within a Nano-scale Supramolecular Capsule influences Photochemistry, Gibb, C. L. D.; Sundaresan, A. K.; Ramamurthy, V.; Gibb, B. C., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 4069-4080. go to article.

Directed Ortho Lithiation of Deep-Cavity Cavitands: Functionalizing Molecular Concavity, Laughrey, Z. R.; Gibb, B. C., J. Org. Chem., 2006, 71, 1289-1294. go to article and see Cover article issue #4…

Encapsulation of Ferrocene and Peripheral Electrostatic Attachment of Viologens to Dimeric Molecular Capsules Formed by an Octaacid, Deep-Cavity Cavitand, Podkoscielny, D.; Philip, I.; Gibb, C. L. D.; Gibb, B. C.; Kaifer, A. E., Chem. Eur. J., 2008, 14, 4704-4710. go to article.

High-Definition Self-Assemblies driven by the Hydrophobic Effect: Synthesis and Properties of a Supramolecular Nano-Capsule, Liu, S. and Gibb, B. C., Chem Commun. 2008, 3709-3716 (Feature Article). go to article.