The ingenious design and synthesis of novel macrocycles bring out renewed vigor of
supramolecular chemistry in the past decade. As an intriguing class of macrocycles …

Over the last decade, pillararenes have shown remarkable potential in a variety of fields by
virtue of their symmetrical pillar-shaped structures, flexible functionalization, and unique host …

Pillararenes are macrocyclic oligomers of alkoxybenzene akin to calixarenes but tethered at
the 2, 5-positions via methylene bridges. Benefiting from their unique pillar-shaped …

A novel potentiometric pH sensor based on polydopamine films coated on a carbon nano-
onion conductive surface is introduced. Glassy carbon electrodes containing a carbon nano …

A novel supramolecular organic framework gel (PQPA) has been constructed by a novel
bilateral 8-hydroxyquinoline modified pillar [5] arene host (P5Q) and a bilateral bromohexyl …

Electrochemical sensing is a promising analytic method with its advantages, such as low
cost, fast response, simple operation, high accuracy, low detection limit and so on. With the …

In this work, we have proposed a novel universal stimulus-sensitive nanosized polymer
system based on decasubstituted macrocyclic structures—pillar [5] arenes and tetrazole …

Hydrazides of glycine-containing decasubstituted pillar [5] arenes were synthesized and
characterized. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) …

The key options for the synthesis of functionalized pillar [5] arenes and their applications in
electrochemical sensors and biosensors are considered. Examples of using the macrocycle …

In this study a variety of novel symmetrically and asymmetrically functionalized pillar [5]
arenes were synthesized, structurally characterized and applied as ionophores in PVC …