Crown ethers have the remarkable property of recognizing and binding specific metal cations in complex mixtures. We propose to combine molecular recognition with molecular electric conductance. The question we address is: can the event of binding a cation be sensed by a change in conductance? Specifically, we study a short molecular wire (MW) containing a crown-6 molecule connected via sulfur a...

Driven by orthogonal pillar[5]arene-based and crown ether-based molecular recognitions, a dynamic [1]catenane with pH-responsiveness was constructed via threading-followed-by-complexation.

D agm ar H enschel, O liver H iem isch, A rm an d B laschette* , P e te r G. Jones* Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie der Technischen Universität, Postfach 3329, D-38023 Braunschweig Z. Naturforsch. 51b, 1313-1319 (1996); eingegangen am 30. April 1996 N-Methyl(benzenesulfonyl)(methanesulfonyl)amine, N-Methyldi(fluorosulfonyl)amine, 18-Crown-6, Binary Complexes of Uncharged Molecu...

A rigid octacationic tetraviologen-based cyclophane, (8+), is reported. It possesses a highly electron-deficient rectangular cavity with a length of 23 Å and width of 6.1 Å and is capable of encapsulating either two small π-aromatic guest molecules, such as PhMe and PhCl, simultaneously, or one large molecule, e.g., bis-1,5-dinaphtho[50]crown-14.

Self-assembly of a tribenzo-27-crown-9 ether functionalized with six terpyridines generated (85%) an expanded tetrahedral structure comprised of four independent triangular surfaces interlinked by crown ether vertices.

In the title compound, C(7)H(10)N(+)·ClO(4) (-)·C(12)H(24)O(6), the 4-methyl-anilinium cation inter-acts with an 18-crown-6 mol-ecule forming a rotator-stator-like structure through bifurcated N-H⋯(O,O) hydrogen bonds between the ammonium group of the cation and the O atoms of the crown ether mol-ecule. All three components of the structure possess mirror symmetry. The benzene ring is inclined ...