1 Assemblages Moléculaires d'Intérêt Biologique (UMR CNRS 5086), Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, 7 passage du Vercors, F-69367 Lyon, France.
Two trimeric units of calix[4]arene di-methoxycarboxylic acid form a six-pointed star architecture that, in turn, generates triple helical aquatubes which intermesh between themselves by aromatic-aromatic interdigitation of the macrocycle.