Experimental Comparative Study of Dynamic Behavior in Solution Phase of C-Tetra(phenyl)resorcin[4]arene and C-Tetra(phenyl)pyrogallol[4]arene.

The synthesis of phenyl-resorcinarenes and pyrogallolarenes is known to produce a conformational mixture of cone and chair isomers. Depending on the synthesis conditions the composition of the conformational mixture is variable; however, the cone conformer is the greatest proportion of phenyl-resorcin[4]arenes and chair conformer of pyrogallol[4]arenes. The experimental evidence suggests that phenyl-substituted resorcinarene and pyrogallolarene exist as a dynamic boat in solution.