The Journal of organic chemistry

Do commercially available metal salts mediate calixarene formation via hydrogen-bonded dimers?

SP Bew, SV Sharma

Index: Bew, Sean P.; Brimage, Rebecca A.; Hiatt-Gipson, Glyn; Sharma, Sunil V.; Thurston, Sean Organic Letters, 2009 , vol. 11, # 12 p. 2483 - 2486

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Abstract

In this article we report the first example of a Lewis acid promoted, one-pot, Brønsted acid free, high-yielding synthesis of the calixarene macrocycle from the “monomer” p-tert- butylphenol. We report that when a commercially available metal salt (Lewis acid) is