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Rigid tetranitroresorcinarenes.

Organic letters (2002-04-27)
Alexander Shivanyuk, Adel Rafai Far, Julius Rebek
ABSTRACT

[reaction: see text]. o-alkylation of C2V-symmetrical resorcinarene tetraesters 2 with 2 equiv of 1,3-difluoro-4,6-dinitrobenzene readily affords conformationally rigid octanitro resorcinarene 3, which is a potential scaffold for the design of supramolecular structures.

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Sigma-Aldrich
1,5-Difluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene, 97%