Crown Ether Binding and Ion Solubility

Crown ethers are cyclic polyethers with several oxygen atoms arranged in a ring. Their ring shape gives them a crown-like form. Charles Pederson first synthesized the first crown ether at DuPont in 1967, and he later shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for that work.

Crown ethers are named w...

Crown ethers are cyclic compounds derived from ethylene glycol and its substituents, with multiple ether linkages.

First discovered by Charles Pederson in 1967, crown ethers are so-called because their molecular shape resembles a crown.

The naming of crown ethers uses the general formula x-crown-y, where x