Application of macrocyclic compounds in chemical analysis
Application of macrocyclic compounds in chemical analysis
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DOI:
10.1021/ac50041a001
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发表时间:
1979-04
影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
I. Kolthoff
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作者:
I. Kolthoff
Macrocyclic compounds are uncharged and contain a cavity in which a cation can be encapsuled. The complexes thus formed are of great analytical interest, but relatively few papers dealing with these compounds have been published in analytical journals as compared to hundreds of publications in a variety of nonanalytical journals. In the present review and discussion, we will often refer to the macrocyclic compounds as ligands and denote them by the symbol L, while a complex with a cation Cn+ is denoted by LCn+.As early as 1939, a few macrocyclic compounds have been prepared by organic chemists, but their complexing properties with cations were not recognized until in the sixties. There are natural macrocyclic compounds which are antibiotics, which have remainedin the center of interest of biochemical, physical, and electroanalytical chemists. Valinomycin and some other natural ligands are highly selective toward K+(and Rb+) as compared to sodium. Their complexes with potassium salts with lipophilic type of anions penetrate through a lipophilic membrane, thus establishing a potential difference between two aqueous solutions separated by the membrane. They are discussed in a separate section and their application in membranes in the “Electrochemistry Section”. Also properties of compounds called cyclodextrins which can encave entire molecules of salts and nonelectrolytes, are mentioned in the section dealing with “Natural Macrocyclic Compounds”. It was in 1967 when Pedersen (1) published his first paper on crown ethers under the title “Cyclic Polyethers and Their Complexes with Metal Salts”. Since then, these ligands and related synthetic macrocyclic compounds have been in the center of interest for physical, organic, inorganic, and biochemists and, to a lesser extent, for analytical chemists. Soon after Pedersen’s publication, Lehn et al.(2) in Strasbourg started their large series on papers on the analytically very important macrobicyclic compounds called cryptands by Lehn. Their properties and applications are presented in the present paper in the section on “Bicyclic, Tricyclic, and Tetracyclic Cryptands”.