Crown ethers: sensors for ions and molecular scaffolds for materials and biological models

GW Gokel, WM Leevy, ME Weber - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Crown ethers are heterocycles that, in their simplest form, are cyclic oligomers of dioxane.
The essential repeating unit of any simple crown ether is ethyleneoxy, ie,-CH2CH2O-, which …

Undecylenic acid: a valuable and physiologically active renewable building block from castor oil

M Van der Steen, CV Stevens - ChemSusChem: Chemistry & …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A lot of attention is currently being paid to the transition to a biobased economy. In this
movement, most efforts concentrate on the development of bioenergy applications including …

Biomedical potentials of crown ethers: prospective antitumor agents

M Kralj, L Tušek‐Božić… - … : Chemistry Enabling Drug …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Crown ethers are of enormous interest and importance in chemistry, biochemistry, materials
science, catalysis, separation, transport and encapsulated processes, as well as in the …

Crown ethers having side arms: a diverse and versatile supramolecular chemistry

MR Gokel, M McKeever, JW Meisel… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Lariat ethers are a variant of crown ethers that have pendant side arms. The original design
for these molecules included donor groups in the side arms that were envisioned to …

Synthesis, complexation and antifungal, antibacterial activity studies of a new macrocyclic schiff base

HI Ugras, I Basaran, T Kilic… - Journal of heterocyclic …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A new macrocyclic ligand, L was synthesized using the high dilution condition with
condensation of triethylene glycol diamine and terephtalaldehyde in ethanol. The obtained …

Endemic Mountain Tea (Sideritis dichotoma Huter): Antioxidant and Antibacterial Activities, Mineral Content by ICP‐MS and Phytochemical Content by LCHR‐MS

SB Öztürk Sarıkaya, C Zehiroğlu - Chemistry & Biodiversity, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Endemic Sideritis dichotoma Huter, herbal tea, is used for colds, coughs and
digestive ailments. Since at least 25% of the active ingredients of pharmacological drugs are …

Density functional theory study of selectivity of crown ethers to Li+ in spent lithium-ion batteries leaching solutions

Y Yao, M Zhu, Z Zhao, W Liu, B Tong… - Chinese Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
It is a challenge to recover lithium from the leaching solution of spent lithium-ion batteries,
and crown ethers are potential extractants due to their selectivity to alkali metal ions. The …

Synthesis, metal ion complexation and computational studies of thio oxocrown ethers

B Çiçek, A Yıldız - Molecules, 2011 - mdpi.com
The synthesis of some thio-oxocrown ether ligands, B1 (1, 4-dithio-12-crown-4), B2 (1, 7-
dithio-12-crown-4), B3 (1, 7-dithio-15-Crown-5), B4 (1, 7-dithio-18-crown-6), B5 (1, 10-dithio …

Novel bis-crown ethers and their sodium complexes as antimicrobial agent: synthesis and spectroscopic characterizations

Z Hayvalı, H Güler, H Öğütcü, N Sarı - Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2014 - Springer
A series of new compounds containing formyl and imine group were synthesized. New
formyl-substituted compounds were prepared by the reaction of 1, 2-bis (bromomethyl) …

The associations of macrocyclic ethers with cations in 1,4-dioxane/water mixtures; potentiometric Na+ and K+ binding measurements and computational study

B Çiçek, Ü Çakır, A Azizoglu - Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and …, 2012 - Springer
This paper deals with the study of different degrees of association constants of Na+ and K+
ions with macrocycles of [12] crown-4,[15] crown-5,[18] crown-6, and Diaza [18] crown-6 in …