Prof. Dr. Kari Rissanen, University of Jyväskylä: Supramolecular Interactions in Action
An exciting research challenge in supramolecular chemistry is to design, synthe-size, and characterize nano-sized architectures with applications in biology, chem-istry, and materials science. Predicting and designing non- covalently bound su-pramolecular complexes and assemblies is difficult because of the weakness of the interactions involved, thus the resulting superstructure is often a compromise between the geometrical constraints of the building blocks and the competing weak intermolecular interactions.

Our research over 30 years has been focused on the studies of weak non-covalent intermolecular, viz. supramolecular interactions as the driving force in self-assembly and molecular recognition, especially in the solid state by single crystal X-ray diffraction.