The tetra azophenylcalix[4]arene with ortho-ester group was applied for determination of transition metal ions using spectrophotometer. In this case, the derivatives with ortho-ester group turned out the complexing formation selectively with transition metal ions over alkali, alkaline earth metal ions. From those, this study used the molecular mechanic method MM+ and molecular dynamic simulatio...

Selective examples of OH...arene, NH2...arene and C-HN[triple bond, length as m-dash]C weak interactions are presented using a flexible dibenzobicyclo[3.2.2]nonane scaffold for detection and comparative characterisation of non-covalent interactions in solution and solid states.

An efficient blue light emitting diode based on solution processable pyrene-1,3-alt-calix[4]arene is demonstrated, providing a record current efficiency of 10.5 cd A(-1) in a simple non-doped OLED configuration. Complete suppression of pyrene aggregation in the solid state is achieved by controlling chromophore dispersion using the 1,3-alt-calix[4]arene scaffold.

Electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) represents one of the most important classes of reactions in all of chemistry. One of the "iron laws" of EAS is that an electron-rich aromatic ring will react more rapidly than an electron-poor ring with suitable electrophiles. In this report, we present unique examples of electron-deficient arenes instead undergoing preferential substitution in intramo...

The synthesis and NOE-based structural characterization is described of thiacalix[4]arene tricarboxylic acid (7), thiacalix[4]crown-5 and -6 monocarboxylic acids (2 and 5), and the bis(N-methylsulfonyl)thiacalix[4]crowns-5 and -6 (4a,b). The 226Ra2+ selectivity coefficients, log(K(Ra)ex/K(M)ex), of the new thiacalix[4]arene derivatives are compared directly with those of thiacalix[4]crown-5 and...

We investigate the synthesis of accessible calix[4]arene-bound gold clusters consisting of open "coordinatively unsaturated" active sites, using a comparative approach that relies on calix[4]arene ligands with various upper- and lower-rim substituents. In contrast with a reported Au(I)-tert-butyl-calixarene phosphine complex, which exhibits a single cone conformer in solution, the H upper-rim a...

Bifunctional neutral half-sandwich RuII complexes of the type [(η6-arene)Ru(NH3)Cl2] where arene is p-cym (1) or bip (2) were synthesised by the reaction of N,N-dimethylbenzylamine (dmba), NH4PF6 and the corresponding RuII arene dimer, and were fully characterised. X-ray crystallographic studies of [(η6-p-cym)Ru(NH3)Cl2]·{(dmba-H)(PF6)} (1a) and [(η6-bip)Ru(NH3)Cl2] (2) show extensive H-bond in...

We have recently demonstrated that complexation with (η(6)-arene)Ru(II) fragments confers 4-anilinoquinazoline pharmacophores a higher potential for inducing cellular apoptosis while preserving the highly inhibitory activity of 4-anilinoquinazolines against EGFR and the reactivity of the ruthenium centre to 9-ethylguanine (Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 10224-10226). Reported herein are the synthesis...

The Cover Feature illustrates the C−N coupling of aniline and aryl bromide in cavity a supramolecular copper phenanthroline calix[8]arene catalyst. In their Research Article, R. A. Talmazan, J. Refugio Monroy co-workers showed how encapsulation an otherwise poor Cu(I) catalyst by enhances catalytic activity for between amines halides. Yields up to 92% were achieved with low loadings (2.5% mol)....