The synthesis and characterization of giant Calixarenes

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vincent Guérineau, Marion Rollet, Stéphane Viel, Bénédicte Lepoittevin, Ludovic Costa, Pascale Saint-Aguet, Régis Laurent, Philippe Roger, Didier Gigmes, Cyril Martini, Vincent Huc
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07751-4