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Howard M Colquhoun1, David J Williams, Zhixue Zhu
1Department of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, UK. h.m.colquhoun@reading.ac.uk
Abstract:
Macrocyclic receptors having extreme thermo-oxidative stability, and which bind a wide range of electron-donor substrates via pi-stacking donor-acceptor interactions, are accessible by cycloimidization of an amine-functionalized aryl ether-sulfone with pyromellitic dianhydride or 1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic dianhydride. The potential of these receptors in supramolecular chemistry is illustrated, for example, by the spontaneous self-assembly and crystallization of a five-component [3]pseudorotaxane from a solution of its constituents.
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