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Org Lett
; 23(24): 9343-9347, 2021 12 17.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-34872244
ABSTRACT
By taking advantage of the Zincke reaction, we successfully synthesized three macrocycles, each of which contains two bipyridinium units as the electron acceptors. Two of them contain sp2-hybridized atoms exclusively in the ring frameworks, while the third contains two methylene units. The third macrocycle is able to form 1:1 inclusion complexes with guests of complementary sizes. A pair of isomers, namely, phenanthrene and anthracene, could be separated by the third macrocycle.