Ranjan Dutta, Dikhi Firmansyah, Jihoon Kim, Hongil Jo, Kang Min Ok and Chang-Hee Lee
Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 7936-7939
DOI:
10.1039/C8CC04393K,
Communication
meso-Ethynyl extended aryl-picket calix[4]pyrroles 2 and 3 are designed and synthesized by directly anchoring arylethynyl groups at diametrically opposed meso-positions. The critical roles of direct ethynyl linkers are manifested through the isolation of unexpected host–anion conformers of meso-arylethynyl calix[4]pyrroles and a significant enhancement in halide binding affinities.