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Cover Picture: Bambus[6]uril (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 13/2010)
Author(s) -
Svec Jan,
Necas Marek,
Sindelar Vladimir
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201000769
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , hydrogen bond , chemistry , crystallography , formaldehyde , condensation , molecule , organic chemistry , physics , mechanical engineering , engineering , thermodynamics
A novel hexameric macrocycle was directly prepared by acid‐catalyzed condensation of 2,4‐dimethylglycoluril with formaldehyde, as described by V. Sindelar and co‐workers in their Communication on page 2378 ff. The macrocycle binds halide anions inside the cavity through twelve C‐H ⋅⋅X − hydrogen bonding with high affinity and selectivity. The trivial name bambus[6]uril deriving from the bambusoidea subfamily was proposed as the macrocycle resemble part of a bamboo plant stem. Photograph courtesy of Milan Lipensky.