What is Supramolecular chemistry?
[[Image:Supramolecular Assembly Lehn.jpg|thumbnail|200px|An example of a [[supramolecular assembly]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/anie.199618381|title=Self-Assembly of a Circular Double Helicate|year=1996|last1=Hasenknopf|first1=Bernold|first2=Jean-Marie|first3=Boris O.|first4=Gerhard|first5=Dieter|journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English|volume=35|pages=1838|last2=Lehn|last3=Kneisel|last4=Baum|last5=Fenske|issue=16}}</ref>]] [[Image:Cucurbituril gyroscope AngewChemIntEd 2002 v41 p275 hires.png|thumbnail|200px|Supramolecular complex of a chloride ion, [[cucurbituril|cucurbit[5]uril]], and [[cucurbituril|cucurbit[10]uril]].]] [[Image:Rotaxane Crystal Structure EurJOrgChem page2565 year1998.png|thumbnail|200px|An example of a [[mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures|mechanically-interlocked molecular architecture]] in this case a [[rotaxane]].]] [[Image:Host Guest Complex Porphyrin Sanders AngewChemIntEdEngl 1995 1096.jpg|thumbnail|200px|An example of a [[host-guest chemistry]].]] [[Image:Cucurbit-6-uril ActaCrystallB-Stru 1984 382.jpg|thumbnail|200px|[[Host-guest chemistry|host-guest complex]] with a p-xylylenediammonium bound within a [[cucurbituril]].]] [[Image:Lehn Beautiful Foldamer HelvChimActa 1598 2003.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Intramolecular [[molecular self-assembly|self-assembly]] of a [[foldamer]].]] '''Supramolecular chemistry''' is area of [[chemistry]] that studies the relationship and linking [[molecule]]s into bigger systems. It focuses on the chemical systems made up of a discrete number of [[wikt:assembled|assembled]] molecular subunits or [[wikt:component|components]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Lehn JM|title=Supramolecular chemistry|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|volume=260|issue=5115|year=1993|pages=1762–3|pmid=8511582|doi=10.1126/science.8511582|bibcode=1993Sci...260.1762L}}</ref><ref>Supramolecular Chemistry, J.-M. Lehn, Wiley-VCH (1995) {{ISBN|978-3527293117}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Gennady V. Oshovsky, David N. Reinhoudt, Willem Verboom|title=Supram