The prohibitive difficulty of the covalent bond approach to the construction of artificial hosts for medium-size substrates can be circumvented by designing hosts that assemble by hydrogen bonding of smaller, simpler fragments. The calixarene dimer shown on the right is held together by interdigitating urea groups.
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Javier de Mendoza (1998) studied this question.