S. Arimori et al., TAILOR-MAKING OF DESIRED ASSEMBLIES FROM WELL-DESIGNED MONOMERS - USEOF CALIX[4]ARENE CONFORMERS AS BUILDING-BLOCKS, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (8), 1993, pp. 887-889
Water-soluble, conformationally-immobilized calix[4]arenes with cone a
nd 1,3-alternate conformations (cone-1 and 1,3-alternate-1, respective
ly) have been synthesized. In aqueous solution cone-1, with a cone-sha
ped surface, aggregated into micelles with 20-40 angstrom diameter whe
reas 1,3-alternate-1, with a cylindrical surface, could not form such
aggregates for concentrations up to 0.010 mol dm-3.