Analysis of cation—macrocycle complexation by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry

Abstract
Fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry has been used to analyse the cation complexation behaviour of a systematically varied array of crown and lariat ethers having one or two sidearms. Sandwich complexation. apparent when the cation is somewhat larger than the crown cavity, is observed for several systems but the presence of donor-group-containing sidearms in lariat ethers suppresses this phenomenon. Calcium cation complexation proved to be especially interesting.

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