摘要:
A study of the aroylation of calix[6]arenes under a variety of conditions has shown that the reaction often yields the 1,2,4,5-tetraester as a major product but that the outcome is dependent both on the aroylating agent and the calixarene. The best results have been obtained with p-nitrobenzoyl chloride which reacts with p-tert-butylcalix[6]arene (1a) to yield a separable mixture containing ca. 40% tetraester 2a and 30% pentaester 3 when NaH is used as the base or up to 85% of the tetraester when 1-methylimidazole is used as the base. In comparable fashion benzoyl chloride and p-nitrobenzoyl chloride react with la and lb, respectively, to yield the tetraesters 2b and 2c, whereas p-allylcalix[6]arene (1c) reacts under the same conditions to produce the hexaester 6. With limiting amounts of p-nitrobenzoylating agent the diesters 4 and 5 have been isolated in low yields. 3,5-Dinitrobenzoyl chloride gives less satisfactory results, producing mixtures containing six or more eaters from which only small amounts of the 1,2,4,5-tetraester 2d have been isolated. The structure and conformation of the products have been established by elemental analysis, mass spectral measurements, and H-1 NMR techniques. In the case of 2a this includes difference NOE and transient NOE determinations which show that the compound exists in a conformation in which two of the aroylated moieties are canted inward so that their p-tert-butyl groups occupy the two faces of the calix[6]arene cavity, thus self-complexing the compound and preventing intermolecular complexation.