“…p ‐ tert ‐Butylcalix[8]arene (TBC[8]) is significantly more flexible than TBC[4] due to annular inversion, and metal complexes6 (TM and Ln) formed with this ligand most frequently adopt three particular conformations: pleated‐loop,6c, e, f, i, j, l, o, p, v double‐cone,6a, b, q, s–u and a third in which the molecule wraps around a small cluster in a manner akin to the shell of a tennis ball 6d. h, k–n With respect to Ln TBC[8] complexes (there are only ten in total in the Cambridge Structural Database),7 one mononuclear complex has been reported in which the calixarene adopts a pleated‐loop conformation 6o.…”