Intriguing association behavior in solution is exhibited by the rigid macrocycle 1. For instance, it reacts with organic cations to give ternary complexes of the composition (1⋅cation)⋅1, and with analogous macrocycles without cyano groups it forms heteroaggregates. R=CO2C8H17.
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Tobe et al. (1998) studied this question.