“Self-Assembly, Guest Capture, and NMR Spectroscopy of a Metal–Organic Cage in Water”

By Dave Vosburg ’97. Vosburg made the cover of the Journal of Chemical Education for developing a new laboratory experiment in which a 22-piece tetrahedral cage self-assembles in water and captures various small molecules (including hazardous ones). This work was adapted from pioneering studies by Jonathan Nitschke ’95.