Chemistry deals with complex molecular systems that can be further connected by supramolecular interactions and reaction networks. However, chemists have taken little advantage of the intrinsic complexity of chemical systems, probably due to the lack of appropriate tools to analyse and understand complexity. In the last few decades, the concept of complexity has grown appealing: it allows the design of networks and dynamic systems expressing emerging properties and functions, which would be difficult to achieve from the mere addition of the components of the ensemble. Here we describe a personal overview of the recent state-of-the-art in the field, mainly focused on complex systems providing molecular recognition and catalysis. Far from being a thorough revision of the recent literature, we intend to illustrate the topic to attract the chemical community for considering complexity as an additional parameter in their research.

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利用复杂性在化学系统中实现功能

化学涉及复杂的分子系统，可以通过超分子相互作用和反应网络进一步连接。但是，化学家几乎没有利用化学系统固有的复杂性，这可能是由于缺乏分析和理解复杂性的适当工具。在过去的几十年中，复杂性的概念变得越来越有吸引力：它允许设计网络和动态系统来表达新兴的特性和功能，而仅通过增加集成组件就很难实现。在这里，我们描述了该领域最新技术的个人概述，主要集中在提供分子识别和催化作用的复杂系统上。并不是对最新文献进行彻底的修订，