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A Belted Monofacial Ionophore Featuring High Selectivity for Lithium Ion Complexation |
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| Authors: | Leo A. Paquette Jinsung Tae Eugene R. Hickey Robin D. Rogers |
| Abstract: | Despite its preferred equatorial conformation in the solid state and in solution, the cis,cis-trispiro ether 1 binds readily and strongly to lithium ions. The 2:1 sandwich complex 2 is initially formed and transformed progressively into the 1:1 species 3 upon the addition of more LiClO4. |
| Keywords: | Crown compounds Ionophores Spiro compounds Stacking interactions Tridentate ligands |