“…Sufficient mobility of bromine and iodine atoms in the aromatic fragments of these macrocycles enables ease of further transformations into acetylene, [3][4][5] vinyl, [4][5] n-alkyl, n-hydroxyalkyl, [6] bioactive ammonium and phosphonium [7] derivatives, which are hard or inaccessible by other ways, and also crown heterocycles, [8] bis-benzocrown ethers, [3,6] etc. HBCE have great potential as materials for the synthesis of new types of polymers with selective sorption, [9] original nanolayers, [1] considerably increasing products' wear resistance, etc.…”