Download or read book Crown Ethers and Cryptands written by George W Gokel and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crown Ethers and Cryptands introduces the broad and basic principles of crown ether and cryptand chemistry at the advanced undergraduate, graduate and working professional level. The book provides a brief introduction, outlining the history of the field and goes on to cover syntheses, complexation of cations and molecules, complex structures, applications and recent developments. It aims to acquaint readers with the scope and principles of the field, providing a bibliography of reviews and books as reference to further reading and citations of the original literature.