This paper reports the synthesis and NMR studies oi a novel tweezer mo
lecule (25,8S)-2-(8-naphthoyl oxymethyl)-8-(2-naphthoyl aminomethyl)-1
,5,9-triazabicyclo[4.4.0] dec-5-ene chloride. The complexation effect
of the tweezer molecule and p-nitrobenzoate salts by means of H-1 NMR
shows that they are self-associated by hydrogen bonding, electrostatic
interaction and arene-arene sandwich stacking interaction.