Dv. Khasnis et al., CHEMISTRY IN MOLECULAR BASKETS - VARIABLE COORDINATION OF PHOSPHORUS IN CALIX[4]ARENES, Phosphorus, sulfur and silicon and the related elements, 75(1-4), 1993, pp. 253-256
The calix[4]arenes (with para substituents R = tert-butyl or H) are sh
own to accommodate phosphorus with coordination numbers 6, 5, 4, and 3
. When phosphorus is hexacoordinate, the calix[4]arene adopts the cone
conformation; with a tetracoordinate phosphorus, a geometry best desc
ribed as a partial cone is observed.