Synthesis, crystallography, and magnetic characterization of a stable macrocyclic tetranitroxide
1, a calix[4]arene, which is functionalized with four
tert-butylnitroxides at the upper rim, is described. Insolution,
1 has a 4-fold symmetric fixed
cone conformation on the NMR time scale and small, butnonnegligible, exchange interactions between the radicals (30 K >
J/
k
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1.8 mK). In the solid state,dimerization of one diagonal pair of nitroxides leads to a pinched
cone conformation for
1 with strongintradimer antiferromagnetic coupling with
J/
k![](/images/entities/verbar.gif)
= 200-300 K (singlet-triplet energy gap,
EST ![](/images/entities/ap.gif)
1 kcal/mol).