The synthesis of molecular receptors that can selectively recognize specific guests is a topic of current interest due to the important applications that these species can have in the development of sensors, probes and selective catalysts. 1 Although initially more attention was paid to receptors that could bind cations and neutral species, over the past few years an increasing number of molecular hosts for the selective recognition of anionic guests have been developed. 2,3 ...
[Goddard-Borger, Ethan D.; Tropak, Michael B.; Yonekawa, Sayuri; Tysoe, Christina; Mahuran, Don J.; Withers, Stephen G. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2012 , vol. 55, # 6 p. 2737 - 2745]
