Amphiphilic molecular baskets were obtained by attaching facially amphiphilic cholate groups to a covalent scaffold (calix [4] arene or 1, 3, 5-2, 4, 6-hexasubstituted benzene). In a solvent mixture consisting of mostly a nonpolar solvent (ie, CCl4) and a polar solvent (ie, DMSO), the hydrophilic faces of cholates turned inward to form a reversed-micelle-like conformer whose stability was strongly influenced by the number of the cholates and the ...