Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1993, 58, 153-158
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19930153

1,2-Bis(azacrown)ethanes: Effect of Bridge Substitution and Ring Size on Formation of Sandwich Complexes with Sodium and Potassium Ions

Martin Bělohradský, Petr Holý, Juraj Koudelka and Jiří Závada

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Abstract

The title problem was investigated potentiometrically using four homologous series of bis(azacrown)s I-IV. A surprisingly large destabilizing effect of bridge substituent was found in the intramolecular sandwich complex formation and ascribed to symmetry violation.