Selective etherification of calix[4]arenes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/00397919908086010

Calix[4]arenes 1 or 2 react with alkyl halides and aqueous potassium hydroxide in the presence of PEG as phase transfer catalyst at room temperature to give the selectively distally dietherified product 3 or 4 in excellent yields. While at the same reacti

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Selective Etherification of
Calix[4]arenes
Wen-Guang Wang a , Qi-Yu Zheng a & Zhi-Tang Huang a
a Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, 100080, China
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To cite this article: Wen-Guang Wang, Qi-Yu Zheng & Zhi-Tang Huang (1999): Selective
Etherification of Calix[4]arenes, Synthetic Communications: An International Journal for
Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 29:21, 3711-3718
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