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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Pap LG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6027750 | biostudies-other | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Polyhedron 20171114
Crown ethers are useful macrocycles that act as size-selective binding sites for alkali metals. These frameworks have been incorporated into a number of macromolecular assemblies that use simple cations as reporters and/or activity triggers. Incorporating crown ethers into secondary coordination sphere ligand frameworks for transition metal chemistry will lead to new potential methods for controlling bond formation steps, and routes that couple traditional ligand frameworks with these moieties a ...[more]