Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

The synthesis and characterization of giant Calixarenes

  • Vincent Guérineau,
  • Marion Rollet,
  • Stéphane Viel,
  • Bénédicte Lepoittevin,
  • Ludovic Costa,
  • Pascale Saint-Aguet,
  • Régis Laurent,
  • Philippe Roger,
  • Didier Gigmes,
  • Cyril Martini,
  • Vincent Huc

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07751-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Calixarenes are cyclic oligomers obtained by condensation reactions between phenols and formaldehyde and usually include up to eight phenolic subunits. Here the authors demonstrate the synthesis of calixarenes with up to 90 phenolic subunits with up to 65% yield via a scalable process.