Recent Developments in Calixarenes and Their Properties

The increasing number of reports, monographs and patents dealing with the hemistry of inclusion compounds shows the growing interest of organic chemists in elaborating new chemical systems presenting novel physical and chemical properties. These properties are available for fundamental as well as applied research. On the one hand, basic studies on the structure and the nature of inclusion compounds provide information on the intermolecular forces implicated in organized systems and in enzyme processes. On the other hand, applications are in progress in laboratories and industries, for instance, in catalyzing chemical reactions, in transporting and extracting metallic cations, and in modifyi…