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Water-Soluble Aromatic Crown Ethers

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After the serendipitous discovery by Pedersen [1], crown ethers have been widely applied as brine separators, phase-transfer catalysts [2], and chiral sensors [3]. The simplest crown ethers are heterocycles with cyclic oligomers of ethyleneoxy. Although dioxane is compliant to this definition, it is not realized as a crown ether due to small cavity. The other crown ethers with simple chemical formula of (–CH2CH2O–)n in which n ≥ 3 are both soluble in almost all the known solvents, they can binding small guests containing binding site of metal ions, ammoniums, and diazonium [4]. To broaden the range of molecular recognition of crown ethers, lots of crown ethers with aromatic backbones have been developed which can associate with π-electron-poor guests like organic ammonium [5], pyridinium [6], pyromellitic diimide [7], and naphthalene diimide with the aid of π-stacking interaction [8]. During past three decades, a lot of supramolecular architecture based on molecular recognition of aromatic crown ethers has been developed [9].

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  2. College of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tian**, China

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  3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tian**), Tian**, China

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Chen, L., Liu, Y. (2020). Water-Soluble Aromatic Crown Ethers. In: Liu, Y., Chen, Y., Zhang, HY. (eds) Handbook of Macrocyclic Supramolecular Assembly . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2686-2_2

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