Gale Philip A, Tong Christine C, Haynes Cally J E, Adeosun Olubukunola, Gross Dustin E, Karnas Elizabeth, Sedenberg Elaine M, Quesada Roberto, Sessler Jonathan L
School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.
J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Mar 17;132(10):3240-1. doi: 10.1021/ja9092693.
meso-Octamethyloctafluorocalixpyrrole, a simple tetrapyrrolic macrocycle, has been shown to function as both a chloride/nitrate and a chloride/bicarbonate antiport agent for lipid bilayer transmembrane anion transport. This is the first example of a synthetic macrocyclic pyrrole-based receptor capable of transmembrane bicarbonate transport.