The Pedersen Memorial Issue

Front Matter....Pages i-6
The Discovery of Crown Ethers....Pages 7-10
The Productive Scientific Career of Charles Pedersen (October 3, 1904–0ctober 26, 1989)....Pages 11-21
Free Energy Perturbation Simulations of Cation Binding to Valinomycin....Pages 23-53
An Approach to Channel Type Molecular Structures. 1. Synthesis of Bouquet -Shaped Molecules Based on an [18]-O 6 Polyether Macrocycle....Pages 55-74
Consequences of the ‘Pedersen Papers’ on Crown Type Chemistry at Würzburg and Bonn Universities: From Heteroaromatic Crowns and Podands to Large Molecular and Crystalline Cavities Including Multisite Receptors, Cascade Molecules, Chromoionophores, Siderophores, Surfactant-Type, and Extreme Ligands....Pages 75-119
Conformational Mobility in Chemically-Modified Cydodextrins....Pages 121-150
Högberg Compounds with a Functionalized Box-Like Cavity....Pages 151-158
Influence of Quaternary Onium Salts, Crown Ethers and Cryptands on Olefin Epoxidations Promoted by HOCl/ClO- in the Presence of Mn(III)-tetrakis(2,6-dichlorophenyl) porphyrin Chloride....Pages 159-173
Macrobicyclic Aminals....Pages 175-186
Tribracchial Lariat Ethers: Syntheses, Binding, and Formation of an Intramolecular Macroring-Sidearm Complex in the Absence of Any Cation....Pages 187-197
Bis(crown ether)s as Na + -K + ATPase Model in a Liquid Membrane....Pages 199-211
Effect of Solvent upon Competitive Liquid—Liquid Extraction of Alkali Metal Cations by Isomeric Dibenzo-16-crown-5-oxyacetic Acids....Pages 213-222
Potassium Selective Chromoionophores....Pages 223-236
Molecular Dynamics and the Structure of Macrocycles — Solvent Acetonitrile Interactions....Pages 237-251
Influence of Solvent Properties on Cation-Macrocycle Complexation: Cesium Cryptates....Pages 253-262
Li + (TMPAND)Na - : The First Alkalide Prepared from an Azacage Complexant....Pages 263-274
Evaluation of a Direct 1 H NMR Method for Determining log K and Δ H Values for Crown Ether—Alkylammonium Cation Complexation....Pages 275-289
Cation and Anion Coordination Chemistry of Palladium(II) with Polyazacycloalkanes. Thermodynamic and Structural Studies....Pages 291-304
The Crystal Structure of Dibenzo-14-Crown-4, A Preorganized Basis of Square Pyramid Coordination for Lithium Ions....Pages 305-312
On the Solid-State Conformations of 18-crown-6 Complexes....Pages 313-332
Structure and Thermodynamic Aspects of Macrobicyclic Polyether—Metal Ion Interactions....Pages 333-339
The Crystal and Molecular Structures of Bridged Spherands: The Host C 52 H 52 O 8 , Its Complex C 52 H 52 O 8 Li + , and the Complexes C 50 H 48 O 6 ⋅Li + and C 52 H 52 O 6 ⋅Li + ....Pages 341-360
Complexes between Disubstituted Benzo-15-Crown-5 Ligands and Sodium or Potassium Bromides....Pages 361-375
X-Ray Structural Study of a Zinc(II) Inclusion Complex of a Phenolate-pendant Cyclam....Pages 377-387
Structural Definition of Chemical Templates and the Prediction of New and Unusual Materials....Pages 389-395
Back Matter....Pages 397-403