p-t-Butyl-calix[4]arene tetracarboxylic acid. A water soluble calixarene in a cone structure

1 January 1984

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 15,p. 981-982
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39840000981

Abstract

Treatment of p-t-butyl-calix[4]arene (1) with t-butyl bromoacetate in tetrahydrofuran–N,N-dimethylfromamide gives, after hydrolysis, a tetracarboxylic acid which exists in a cone structure with an enforced hydrophobic cavity, and whose alkali and ammonium salts are soluble in water.

Keywords

STRUCTURE
TREATMENT
SALTS
HYDROPHOBIC
ARENE TETRACARBOXYLIC
BUTYL CALIX