Table 2.

Summary of the catalytic performance of calixarene macrocycles evaluated in this review.

Organocatalyst	Application	References
Calix[4]arene with a chiral proline moiety at the upper or lower rim	Aldol reaction	Li et al., 2009
		Li et al., 2010
		Eymur et al., 2014
		Uyanik et al., 2014
		Aktas et al., 2016
		Sahin et al., 2016
		Li et al., 2017
Calix[4]arene with imidazole moieties at the lower rim	Aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction Benzyl nucleophilic substitution	Yang et al., 2012
Calix[n]-arenes with quaternary ammonium salts at the upper rim	One-pot Mannich reaction	Sayin and Yilmaz, 2014
p-Sulfonic acid calixarenes	Synthesis of 2,3-dihydroquinazolyn-4(1H)-ones	Rahaman et al., 2015
Calix[6]arene sulfonic acid derivatives	Michael addition between indoles and α,β-unsaturated ketones	Xie et al., 2013
Thioureido calix[n]arenes	Vinylogous Mukaiyama Aldol reaction	De Rosa et al., 2016
Tetraminocalix[4]arene	Vinylogous Mukaiyama Aldol reaction	De Rosa et al., 2017b