Rahul Dev Mukhopadhyay and Kimoon Kim consider how cucurbiturils — pumpkin-shaped macrocycles — went from curiosities to compelling cavitands for a host of applications.
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Mukhopadhyay, R.D., Kim, K. Cucurbituril curiosities. Nat. Chem. 15, 438 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01141-0
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