Lariat ethers are interesting recognition motifs in supramolecular chemistry. The synthesis of a luminescent lariat aza-crown ether with a carboxyl group appended by azide-alkyne (Huisgen) cycloaddition is presented.
Mismatched complexes of the alkali metals cations Li+ and Na+ were synthesized from 1,2-disila[18]crown-6 (1 and 2) and of K+ from 1,2,4,5-tetrasila[18]crown-6 (4). In these alkali metal complexes, not all crown ether O atoms participate in the coord...
Positively charged metal–ammonia complexes are known to host peripheral, diffuse electrons around their molecular skeleton. The resulting neutral species form materials known as expanded or liquid metals. Alkali, alkaline earth, and transition...
Nitrobenzofurazan derivatives are well known for their fluorescence, whilst crown ethers are known for their complexing capacity toward cationic species. In this study, we present the synthesis and structural characterization of a new derivative cont...
The use of organic additives presents the greatest versatility and control of zeolite synthesis in order to prepare novel architectures for desired applications. Despite this prospect, there is little clarity of how organic additives are involved in...
Polyethersulfone (PES) is one of the most used synthetic polymers for the production of hemodialysis membranes, due to its appropriate features, such as biocompatibility, high permeability for low-molecular-weight proteins, high endotoxin retention a...
We present the intra- and inter-molecular organocatalysis of SN2 fluorination using CsF by crown ether to estimate the efficacy of the promoter and to elucidate the reaction mechanism. The yields of intramolecular SN2 fluorination of the veratrole su...
Unnatural amino acids with enhanced properties, such as increased complexing ability and luminescence, are considered to be highly attractive building blocks for bioinspired frameworks, such as probes for biomolecule dynamics, sensitive fluorescent c...
This paper describes a synthetic approach to a novel D-glucose-conjugated 15-crown-5 ether having a spiroketal structure starting from a 1-C-vinylated glucose derivative. The approach consists of the glycosylation of the vinylated glucose derivative...
Due to the increased demand for palladium, as well due to its reduced availability in nature, its recovery from diluted waste solutions becomes a necessity, and perhaps an emergency. As a result of economic and technological development, new material...
The large-scale application of aromatic polyamide (PA) thin-film composite (TFC) membranes for reverse osmosis has provided an effective way to address worldwide water scarcity. However, the water permeability and salt rejection capabilities of the P...
To understand the selectivity of the crown ether type chiral stationary phase (CSP), the retention selectivity for aniline and the positional isomers of substituted anilines were studied. In various substituted isomers, except nitroaniline, a remarka...
Thorium is a weak radioactive element, but the control of its concentration in natural aqueous systems is of great interest for health, because it is a toxic heavy metal. The present paper presents the recovery of thorium from diluted synthetic aqueo...
Arginine plays an important role in cell division and the functioning of the immune system. We describe a novel method by which arginine can be identified using an artificial monolayer based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR). The affinity of arginin...
Aza-crown ether structures have been proven to be effective in constructing fluorescent biosensors for selectively detecting and imaging alkali metal ions in biological environments. However, choosing the right aza-crown ether for a specific alkali m...
The Li+- and K+-complexes of new discotic mesogens, where two n-alkoxy-substituted triphenylene cores are connected by a central crown ether (12-crown-4 and 18-crown-6), provide interesting structural and electronic properties. The inter- and intra-c...
Because of environmental impact, there is a great need for chemosensors, especially for toxic heavy metals such as lead. The conventional instrumental analytical techniques rarely provide an available real-time sensing platform, thus the development...
Direct lithium extraction from unconventional resources requires the development of effective adsorbents. Crown ether-containing materials have been reported as promising structures in terms of lithium selectivity, but data on adsorption in real, hig...
Crown ethers have gained importance in the field of medicine because of their resemblance to natural ionophores like valinomycin. With the goal of developing new pharmacologically important crown ethers, a novel series of crown ethers linked with Fus...
Due to unique chelating and macrocyclic effects, crown ether compounds exhibit wide application prospects. They could be introduced into amphiphilic copolymers to provide new trigger mode for drug delivery. In this work, new amphiphilic random polyme...
A crown ether-loaded hybrid adsorbent suitable for the separation and enrichment of strontium from high-level liquid waste was synthesized. 4′,4′(5″)-di(tert-butylcyclohexano)-18-crown-6 (DtBuCH18C6) and its modifiers dodecyl benzen...
This study presents a new, revolutionary, and easy method of separating Gd (III). For this purpose, a cellulose acetate membrane surface was modified in three steps, as follows: firstly, with aminopropyl triethoxysylene; then with glutaraldehyde; and...
Developing sustainable and molecularly selective adsorbents for heavy-metal removal remains a critical challenge in water purification. Herein, we report a green molecular-engineering approach for fabricating aza-crown ether functionalized sodium alg...
Oligoamines in cellular metabolism carry extremely diverse biological functions (i.e., regulating Ca2+-influx, neuronal nitric oxide synthase, membrane potential, Na+, K+-ATPase activity in synaptosomes, etc.). Furthermore, they also act as longevity...
In this manuscript, we present the successful attachment of crown ether moieties onto fluoropolymer surfaces, via the combination of radiation-induced graft polymerization and a subsequent surface Kabachnik–Fields three-component reaction. The...
A silica-supported copper (Cu/SiO2) catalyst containing highly dispersed Cu nanoparticles was prepared via a crown-ether-assisted impregnation method. A 12-crown-4-ether-assisted Cu/SiO2 catalyst outperformed several Cu/SiO2 catalysts prepared with v...
Herein, we present hybrid crown ether ligands with siloxane and ethylene oxide units and their coordination with the cations Li+, Na+, Mg2+ and Ca2+. The compounds prepared are (SiMe2O)2(C2H4O)3 (1, TrEGDS = Triethylenglycoldisiloxane) and (SiMe2O)2(...
The massive worldwide transition of the transport sector to electric vehicles has dramatically increased the demand for lithium. Lithium recovery by means of ion sieves or supramolecular chemistry has been extensively studied in recent years as a via...
The aim of the work was to analyze the preferential solvation process, and determine the composition of the solvation shell of cyclic ethers using the calorimetric method. The heat of solution of 1,4-dioxane, 12-crown-4, 15-crown-5 and 18-crown-6 eth...
The challenge of efficiently extracting Li+ from brines with high Na+ or Mg2+ concentrations has led to extensive research on developing highly selective separation membranes for electrodialysis. Various studies have demonstrated that nanofiltration...
A great number of biologically active compounds contain at least one amine function. Appropriate selectivity can only be accomplished in a few cases upon the substitution of these groups, thus functionalization of amines generally results in a mixtur...
New podand and crown ether derivatives of 3,5-disubstituted 4H-pyran-4-one (8-11) were prepared by the nucleophilic substitution reaction of 3,5-bis(bromomethyl)-2,6-diphenyl-4H-pyran-4-one with o-nitrophenol, 8-hydroxyquinoline, 2-hydroxymethyl pyri...
A beryllium(II)-ion-selective poly(ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) solid contact electrode comprising 9,10-dinitrobenzo-9-crown-3-ether was successfully developed. The all-solid-state contact electrode, with an oxygen-containing cation-sensing membra...
The extraction of lithium from aqueous solutions of LiNTf2 and LiCl salts using benzo-15-crown-5 ether (B15C5) as an extractant in [C8mim][NTf2] ionic liquid was studied. The transition of the extractant into the aqueous phase and the distribution of...
Lead is a particularly toxic heavy metal that is present above acceptable levels in the water of many countries. This article describes a quick detection method of lead(II) ions using a polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-based ion-selective membrane electrode...
A series of CO2-selective polyimides (CE-PDMS-PI-x) was synthesized by copolymerizing crown ether diamine (trans-diamino-DB18C6) and PDMS-diamine with 4,4′-(hexafluoroisopropylidene) di-phthalic anhydride (6FDA) through the polycondensation reaction....
The solution enthalpy of 15-crown-5 and 18-crown-6 ethers in the mixture of formamide (F) and water (W) was measured at four temperatures: 293.15 K, 298.15 K, 303.15 K, 308.15 K. The standard molar enthalpy of solution,
Regulation of the sodium cations level in the case of renal failure diseases is a very challenging task for clinicians, and new pollutant extractors based on nanomaterials are emerging as potential treatments. In this work, we report different strate...
A novel hydrogen-bonded supramolecular crown-ether-based inclusion compound, [(DL-α-Phenylglycine)(18-crown-6)]+[(CoCl4)0.5]−(1), was obtained via evaporation in a methanolic solution at room temperature using DL-α-phenylglycine, 18...
Lariat ethers are interesting recognition motifs in supramolecular chemistry. The synthesis of a luminescent lariat ether with triglycol chain by azide–alkyne (Huisgen) cycloaddition is presented.
Polymer materials with a low dielectric constant and low dielectric loss have the potential to be applied to high-frequency signal transmissions, such as mobile phone antennas and millimeter wave radars. Two types of diamines, 4,4′-diamino-p-te...
Microwave irradiation was used to obtain a di-Schiff base type crosslinked chitosan dibenzocrown ether (CCdBE) via the reaction between the –NH2 and –CHO groups in chitosan and 4,4′-diformyldibenzo-18-c-6, respectively. The structure of the synthesiz...
Nanofiber membranes were successfully prepared with crown ether (CE) functionalized graphene oxide (GO), chitosan (CS), and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) by low-temperature thermally induced liquid–liquid phase separation. The physical and chemical propert...
Volatile coordination compounds are widely used as precursors for the gas phase synthesis of functional materials. However, such complexes are still very rare for alkali metals, especially for heavy representatives of this family (potassium, rubidium...
Extraction of Pb(II) with picrate ion [Pic−] and 0, 0.58, 15, 48, or 97 mmol·dm−3 Cd(NO3)2 by benzo-18-crown-6 ether (B18C6; L as its symbol) into benzene (Bz) was studied. Three kinds of extraction constants, Kex, Kex±, and...
Modifying non-precious metal porphyrins at the meso-position is sufficient to further improve the ability to activate O2 and the selectivity of the corresponding redox products. In this study, a crown ether-appended Fe(III) porphyrin complex (FeTC4PC...
Extraction constants (Kex & Kex±) for the extraction of silver picrate (AgPic) by benzo-18-crown-6 ether (B18C6) into 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE) were determined at 298 K and various ionic strength (I)-values of a water phase with or without excess...
Crown ether is widely used in water purification because of its ring structure and good selective adsorption of specific heavy metals. However, its high cost and difficulty in recycling limit the purification of heavy metals in water. The anisotropic...
We hypothesized that compounds containing ether linkages within their backbone structures, when exposed to hydroxyl radicals (•OH), can generate ultra-weak photon emission (UPE) as a result of the formation of triplet excited carbonyl species (3...
A study was made on the effect of Ca, Sr, and Ba chloride complexes with dibenzo-18-crown-6 ether as catalysts on the process criteria of the efficiency of industrial cumene oxidation using kinetic modeling. It is the first stage in the process chain...
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