Schiff-Base Imine Encapsulating Ligands and Their Polysaturated Cage Derivatives

1 Schiff-Base Imine Encapsulating Ligands and Their Polysaturated Cage Derivatives 

First representatives of macrobicyclic Schiff bases 1-4, known as prospective caging polynu-cleating ligands for transition metal ions and polar and nonpolar organic guests, have been 

Voloshin et al., The Encapsulation Phenomenon Synthesis, Reactivity and Applications of Caged Ions and Molecules, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27738-7 2 

Condensation of various aromatic and heteroaromatic dialdehydes (e.g., ortho-, meta-, and para-isomers of diformylbenzene) with 1,3,5-trisubstituted aromatic anfine by 

Schiff-base imine capsule 49 with an enlarged cavity [34], 

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