Supramolecular Chemistry of Environmentally Relevant Anions

Funding

Research sponsored by the Environmental Management Science Program, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed and operated by UT-Battelle, LLC; grant no. DE-FG02-04ER63741 to J.L.S.; and grant nos. DE-FG-96ER62307 and DE-FG02-04ER63745 to K. B.-J. The authors thank Peter V. Bonnesen for graciously providing the fluorinated alcohols 11 and 13 and a sample of phenol 12 . We also thank Victor Pastushok for synthesizing the disulfonamide 16 . Professor Sessler would like to acknowledge a fruitful collaboration with Professor Yuri A. Ustynyuk, which has allowed for the synthesis of macrocycles 7 – 10 . The participation of C.J.F. was made possible by an appointment to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Postgraduate Program administered by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities.