A POM@rGO monolith reactor was constructed using a facile and broad-spectrum hydrothermal approach and it effectively catalyzes epoxide ring-opening reactions with 99% conversion and over 90% selectivity, reaching a turnover number (TON) of around 28 044 after 38 h catalysis.
Herein, we report the approach to the otherwise hardly accessible dibenzoxanthenes, diarylbutanes, and calix[4]resorcinarenes possessing urea moieties based on the reaction of N-(4,4-diethoxybutyl)ureas with electron-rich aromatics in strongly acidic media. Unlike the previously developed methods, the proposed approach benefits from one-pot procedure and allows to obtain the target compounds with much higher yields.