Organic Letters 2002-05-02

Rigid tetranitroresorcinarenes.

Alexander Shivanyuk, Adel Rafai Far, Julius Rebek

Index: Org. Lett. 4(9) , 1555-8, (2002)

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Abstract

[reaction: see text]. o-alkylation of C2V-symmetrical resorcinarene tetraesters 2 with 2 equiv of 1,3-difluoro-4,6-dinitrobenzene readily affords conformationally rigid octanitro resorcinarene 3, which is a potential scaffold for the design of supramolecular structures.