title: Calixarenes and cations: a time-lapse photography of the big-bang.
abstract: The outstanding cation complexation properties emerging from the pioneering studies on calixarene ligands during a five-year period in the early 1980s triggered a big-bang burst of publications on such macrocycles that is still lasting at a distance of more than 30 years. A time-lapse photography of this timeframe is proposed which allows the readers to pinpoint the contributions of the different research groups.
authors.affiliation: Dip.to di Chimica, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, 43124 Parma, Italy. casnati@unipr.it
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Casnati
mesh_terms: D047250:Calixarenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D002412:Cations / Q000737:chemistry; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008024:Ligands; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010781:Photography; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D002412:Cations; D008024:Ligands; D047250:Calixarenes