Molecular cages have attracted great attention because of their fascinating topological structures and well‐defined functional cavities. These discrete cages were usually fabricated by coordination assembly approach, a process employing directional metal‐ligand coordination bonds due to the nature of the divinable coordination geometry and the required lability to encode dynamic equilibrium/error‐correction. Compared to these coordination molecular cages with mononulcear metal‐nodes, an increasing number of molecular cages featuring dinuclear and then polynuclear metal‐cluster nodes have been synthesized. These metal‐cluster‐based coordination cages (MCCCs) combine the merits of both metal clusters and the cage structure, and exhibit excellent performances in catalysis, separation, host‐guest chemistry and so on. In this review, we highlight the syntheses of MCCCs and their potential functions that is donated by the metal‐cluster nodes.

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具有金属簇节点的配位组装分子笼

分子笼因其迷人的拓扑结构和明确定义的功能腔而备受关注。这些离散的笼子通常是通过配位组装法制造的，由于可分解配位几何的性质以及编码动态平衡/纠错所需的不稳定性，因此采用定向金属-配体配位键的工艺。与具有单核金属节点的这些配位分子笼相比，合成了越来越多的具有双核和多核金属簇节点的分子笼。这些基于金属簇的配位笼（MCCC）结合了金属簇和笼结构的优点，在催化，分离，客体化学等方面表现出出色的性能。在这篇评论中，