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The synthesis of tetra-acrylamido-calix[4]arene capsules
Nikolai Kuhnert1, Adam Le-Gresley
1Synthetic Biological Organic Chemistry Laboratory, School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, The University of Surrey, Guildford, UK GU2 7XH. n.kuhnert@surrey.ac.uk
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 1, 2003
Abstract:
Upper rim substituted tetra-acrylamido-calix[4]arenes have been synthesised using the palladium catalysed Heck reaction; the compounds display solvent dependent aggregation in solution to form dimeric capsules stabilised by only eight amide C=O-H-N hydrogen bonds and pi-pi interactions.
