The Pedersen Memorial Issue

Chapter 1 The Discovery of Crown Ethers

Chapter 2 The Productive Scientific Career of Charles Pedersen (October 3, 1904–0ctober 26, 1989)

Chapter 3 Free Energy Perturbation Simulations of Cation Binding to Valinomycin

Chapter 4 An Approach to Channel Type Molecular Structures. 1. Synthesis of Bouquet -Shaped Molecules Based on an [18]-O 6 Polyether Macrocycle

Chapter 5 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

Chapter 6 Conformational Mobility in Chemically-Modified Cydodextrins

Chapter 7 Högberg Compounds with a Functionalized Box-Like Cavity

Chapter 8 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

Chapter 9 Macrobicyclic Aminals

Chapter 10 Tribracchial Lariat Ethers: Syntheses, Binding, and Formation of an Intramolecular Macroring-Sidearm Complex in the Absence of Any Cation

Chapter 11 Bis(crown ether)s as Na + -K + ATPase Model in a Liquid Membrane

Chapter 12 Effect of Solvent upon Competitive Liquid—Liquid Extraction of Alkali Metal Cations by Isomeric Dibenzo-16-crown-5-oxyacetic Acids

Chapter 13 Potassium Selective Chromoionophores

Chapter 14 Molecular Dynamics and the Structure of Macrocycles — Solvent Acetonitrile Interactions

Chapter 15 Influence of Solvent Properties on Cation-Macrocycle Complexation: Cesium Cryptates

Chapter 16 Li + (TMPAND)Na - : The First Alkalide Prepared from an Azacage Complexant

Chapter 17 Evaluation of a Direct 1 H NMR Method for Determining log K and Δ H Values for Crown Ether—Alkylammonium Cation Complexation

Chapter 18 Cation and Anion Coordination Chemistry of Palladium(II) with Polyazacycloalkanes. Thermodynamic and Structural Studies

Chapter 19 The Crystal Structure of Dibenzo-14-Crown-4, A Preorganized Basis of Square Pyramid Coordination for Lithium Ions

Chapter 20 On the Solid-State Conformations of 18-crown-6 Complexes

Chapter 21 Structure and Thermodynamic Aspects of Macrobicyclic Polyether—Metal Ion Interactions

Chapter 22 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 +

Chapter 23 Complexes between Disubstituted Benzo-15-Crown-5 Ligands and Sodium or Potassium Bromides

Chapter 24 X-Ray Structural Study of a Zinc(II) Inclusion Complex of a Phenolate-pendant Cyclam

Chapter 25 Structural Definition of Chemical Templates and the Prediction of New and Unusual Materials