C. David Gutsche: An appreciation
This special issue is dedicated to the memory of the true father of the field of calixarenes: C. David Gutsche. David’s contributions to Chemistry over his 55-year career in university, teaching, and research were wide and varied, but he is best known for his pioneering work in unraveling the puzzling and conflicting data from Adolf von Baeyer’s initial examination of the condensation of phenol and aldehydes and the subsequent work of Zinke, Niederl, Vogel and Cornforth. Solving the puzzle of these early studies, working out reliable procedures for the one-step synthesis of calixarenes, and of course naming these now famous cyclic-oligomers, was just the beginning of David’s contribution to the field.
Edited by
Professor Alessandro Casnati(Department of Chemistry, University of Parma)
Professor Philip A Gale(Department of Chemistry, University of Sydney)
Professor Bruce C. Gibb(Department of Chemistry, Tulane University)
Professor Michaele Hardie(School of Chemistry, University of Leeds)