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Patience is a virtue in chemistry too! This is demonstrated once again by the synthesis of the title compound 1 from dimethylglycoluril and formaldehyde in boiling nitric acid, and the structural investigation of this new molecular receptor. The crystallization of 1 from dilute nitric acid took twelve months!
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