“…Over the past few decades, the development of artificial receptors for ion recognition, complexation, and transportation has proven to be an important topic in both environmental and supramolecular chemistry [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. Given their ready availability, and their unique conformational and cavity-containing structures, together with their versatile molecular recognition properties, calixarenes have attracted a great deal of attention during the past several decades, and, indeed, calixarene chemistry has become an indispensable part of supramolecular science [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ]. Calix[ n ]arenes can provide useful building blocks for host-guest type receptors by appropriate modification.…”