Thiacalix[4]arene receptors with two thiourea moieties and 2-pyridyl exhibited a heteroditopic dinuclear receptor F ? Ag + ions by positive allosteric effect.

Hydrogen-bond molecular capsules have attracted much interest in the last decade. In the present paper, we wish to describe new insights obtained from diffusion NMR when studying the self-assembly of resorcin[4]arenes (2), pyrogallol[4]arenes (3) and octahydroxypyridine[4]arenes (4) in solution. These diffusion NMR studies demonstrate that compounds 2 and 3 self-assemble spontaneously into hexa...

Nitration of p-tert-butylcalix[n]arene methyl ethers under a variety of reaction conditions has been examined. It has been determined that amongst different nitration procedures adopted (AlCl3/KNO3, HNO3/CH3COOH, HNO3/(CH3CO)2O, cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate/CH3COOH), ipso-nitration with CH3COOH/HNO3 gives best yields of p-nitrocalixarenes and work up conditions. ipso-Nitration of tetramethoxytet...

The reactions of hydrogen with the 14-electron high-spin iron( 1 1 ) dialkyls of stoichiometry [ FeRJdippe)] [dippe = 1,2-bis(diisopropylphosphino)ethane] have been studied. The p-methylbenzyl complex in diethyl ether yielded the zerovalent p-xylene complex [Fe(q6-C,H4Me,-1 ,4) (dippe)], where the arene ligand has been formed by addition of a hydrogen atom to the a-carbon of the p-methylbenzyl ...

The title compound, C(68)H(64)O(8)·C(4)H(8)O(2), is a new resorcin-[4]arene cavitand synthetic precursor, obtained by alkyl-ation of a previously reported resorcin[4]arene. The additional alkyl bridges significantly rigidify the structure and enforce a 'bowl' shape on the mol-ecular cavity. In the crystal structure, the mol-ecule lies on a crystallographic mirror plane, and a single ethyl aceta...

The dinuclear dichloro complexes [(g-arene)2Ru2(l-Cl)2Cl2] and [(g-C5Me5)2M2(l-Cl)2Cl2] react with 2-(pyridine-2-yl)thiazole (pyTz) to afford the cationic complexes [(g-arene)Ru(pyTz)Cl] (arene = C6H6 1, p-PrC6H4Me 2 or C6Me6 3) and [(g-C5Me5)M(pyTz)Cl] (M = Rh 4 or Ir 5), isolated as the chloride salts. The reaction of 2 and 3with SnCl2 leads to the dinuclear heterometallic trichlorostannyl de...

A series of discrete complexes, [Ni(8)(BTC4A)(2)(μ(6)-CO(3))(2)(μ-CH(3)COO)(4)(dma)(4)]·H(2)O (1), [Ni(8)(BTC4A)(2)(μ(6)-CO(3))(2)(μ-Cl)(2)(μ-HCOO)(2)(dma)(4)]·2DMF·2CH(3)CN (2), [Ni(8)(PTC4A)(2) (μ(6)-CO(3))(2)(μ-CH(3)COO)(4)(dma)(4)]·DMF (3), and [Ni(8)(PTC4A)(2)(μ(6)-CO(3))(2)(μ-OH)(μ-HCOO)(3) (dma)(4)] (4) (p-tert-butylthiacalix[4]arene = H(4)BTC4A, p-phenylthiacalix[4]arene = H(4)PTC4A, dm...