Allosteric binding of anionic guests to a bicyclic host which imitates the action of a 'turnstile'.
A bicyclic host 1, which has a diethynyl tetrafluorophenyl axis and is expected to behave as an anion-binding 'turnstile', has been designed.
Hirata
Osamu
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
Takeuchi
Masayuki
M
Shinkai
Seiji
S