Certain purine and pyrimidine bases form stable complexes with N-benzylated triscatechol macrobicycles (1), because the cavity is the right size and potential hydrogen bonding sites are present. The results stimulate the question whether siderophores play a role in the transport of nucleobases or nucleotides in biological systems.
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