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Synfacts 2010(7): 0768-0768  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1220053
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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A Self-Associating Cavitand

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, D. Barney Walker
F. Durola, J. Rebek, Jr.*
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
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22 June 2010 (online)

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Significance

A self-complexing cavitand is reported wherein a remote binding event (coordination of Zn²+ to the bypridine fragment of 1) influences the affinity of the macrocycle for a guest molecule (inset).