The majority of reactions currently performed in the chemical industry take place in organic solvents,c ompounds that are generally derived from petrochemicals.T op romote chemical processes in water,weexamined the use of synthetic, deep water-soluble cavitands in the Staudinger reduction of long-chain aliphatic diazides (C 8 ,C 10 ,a nd C 12 ). The diazide substrates are taken up by the cavitand in D 2 Oi nf olded, dynamic conformations.T he reduction of one azide group to an amine gives acomplex in which the substrate is fixedinan unsymmetrical conformation, with the amine terminal exposed and the azide terminal deep and inaccessible within the cavitand. Accordingly,t he reduction of the second azide group is inhibited, even with excess phosphine,and good yields of the monofunctionalized products are obtained. In contrast, the reduction of the free diazides in bulk solution yields diamine products.Supportinginformation (synthesis and characterization of new compounds,materials, methods for all experiments, kinetic modeling details, and additional spectral data) and the ORCID identification number(s) for the author(s) of this article can be found under http://dx.