This reference details the theory and application of cation complexation, including the design and synthesis of various cyclic systems, these materials' use as transport systems, in complexation and selectivity studies by macrocyclic systems, and methodologies for understanding these phenomena. In a

Preface, Contributors, 1 Thermodynamics of Cation-Macrocycle Complexation: Enthalpy Entropy Compensation, 2 Understanding Cation-Macrocycle Binding Selectivity in Single-Solvent , Extraction, and Liquid Membrane Systems by Quantifying Thermodynamic Interactions, 3 Conductometric Behavior of Cation-Macrocycle Complexes in Solutions, 4 Rates and Mechanisms of Complexation Reactions of Cations with Crown Ethers and Related Macrocycles, 5 Electrostatic Ion Binding by Synthetic Receptors, 6 Cation Binding by Lariat Ethers, 7 Crystallography of Cation Complexes of Lariat Ethers, 8 Redox Control of Cation Binding in Macrocyclic Systems, 9 Dynamic Control of Cation Binding, 10 Application of Macrocycles to Ion-Selective Electrodes, 11 Complexation by Chromoionophores, 12 Cation Binding by Natural and Modified Ionophores: From Natural Ionophore to Synthetic Ionophore, 13 Unsaturated Crown Ethers: Synthesis, Cation Binding, and Reactions, 14 Complexation by Crown Ethers of Low Symmetry, 15 Cation Complexation by Calixarenes, 16 Mixed-Donor Macrocycles: Solution and Structural Aspects of Their Complexation with Transition and Post-Transition Ions, 17 Second-Sphere Coordination of Transition Metal Complexes by Crown Ethers, 18 Macrocyclic Complexes of Lanthanide Ions, Index