Alkaline metal cations, selectivity

A host of carriers, with a wide variety of ion selectivities, have been proposed for this task. Most of them have been used for the recognition of alkali and alkaline metal cations (e.g., clinically relevant electrolytes). A classical example is the cyclic depsipeptide valinomycin (Fig. 5.13), used as the basis for the widely used ISE for potassium ion (38). This doughnut-shaped molecule has an electron-rich pocket in the center into which potassium ions are selectively extracted. For example, the electrode exhibits a selectivity for K+ over Na+ of approximately 30,000. The basis for the selectivity seems to be the fit between the size of the potassium ion (radius 1.33 A) and the volume of the internal cavity of the macrocyclic molecule. The hydrophobic sidechains of valinomycin stretch into the lipophilic part of the membrane. In addition to its excellent selectivity, such an electrode is well behaved and has a wide working pH range. Strongly acidic media can be employed because the electrode is 18,000 times more responsive to K+ than to H+. A Nernstian response to potassium ion activities, with a slope of 59mV/pK+, is commonly observed... 

In contrast, with KCO, as catalyst and under GL-PTC conditions at high temperature, monomethylation of aromatic amines occur selectively (Table 4). It is well known that the role of P-T agent is to complex the alkaline metal cation tlms enhancing the strength of the naked anion . 

Yosida et al. [41] found that p-t< rr-butylcalix[6]ar-ene can extract Cu from the alkaline-ammonia solution to the organic solvent. Nagasaki and Shinkai [42] described the synthesis of carboxyl, derivatives of calix-[n]arenes ( = 4 and 6) and their selective extraction capacity of transition metal cations from aqueous phase to the organic phase. Gutsche and Nam [43] have synthesized various substituted calix[n]arenes and examined the complexes of the p-bromo benzene sulfonate of p-(2-aminoethyl)calix[4]arene with Ni, Cu , Co-, and Fe. ... 

Recently, Deligoz and Yilmaz [51] prepared three polymeric calix[4]arenes, which were synthesized by reacting chloromethylated polystyrene with 25,26,27-tribenzoyloxy-28-hydroxy calix[4]arene (2a, 3a) and po-lyacryloyl chloride with 25,26,27,28-tetraacetoxy ca-lix[4]arene (4a). After alkaline hydrolysis of the polymers, they were utilized for selective extraction of transition metal cations from aqueous phase to organic phase. 

On the other hand, Bartsch et al. have studied cation transports using crown ether carboxylic acids, which are ascertained to be effective and selective extractants for alkali metal and alkaline earth metal cations 33-42>. In a proton-driven passive transport system (HC1) using a chloroform liquid membrane, ionophore 31 selectively transports Li+, whereas 32-36 and 37 are effective for selective transport of Na+ and K+, respectively, corresponding to the compatible sizes of the ring cavity and the cation. By increasing the lipophilicity from 33 to 36, the transport rate is gradually... 

Cation-selective ionophores are the most successful in polymeric ISEs and selectivi-ties exceeding ten orders of magnitude became quite common. The cation-ionophore binding occurs dominantly due to Lewis interactions and could be understood in terms of hard and soft acid and bases theory (HSAB). While hard base oxygen atoms originate from ester, ether or carbonyl functionalities, and interact with hard acid alkaline cations, the softer sulfur or nitrogen atoms better bind with transition metal ions. Cation... 

There are two general classes of naturally-occurring antibiotics which influence the transport of alkali metal cations through natural and artificial membranes. The first category contains neutral macrocyclic species which usually bind potassium selectively over sodium. The second (non-cyclic) group contains monobasic acid functions which help render the alkaline metal complexes insoluble in water but soluble in non-polar solvents (Lauger, 1972 Painter Pressman, 1982). The present discussion will be restricted to (cyclic) examples from the first class. 

The mechanisms of regioselective and stereoselective 2 -E 2-photocycloadditions have been extensively reviewed. The intramolecular 2 -E 2-photocycloaddition of 2-allyl-2-(l//)-naphthalenone (13) on the surface of silica produces all four cycloadducts (14)-(17) (Scheme 4). ° Molecular mechanics have been used to study the regio- and stereo-selectivity of the 2 -E 2-photocycloadditions in complexes containing crown ether styryl dyes and alkaline earth metal cations."... 

Table 10. Stability constants (log Kt) of alkali and alkaline-earth metal cation complexes with some selected natural antibiotic ligands (K, in Imol i)...

A great number of ligands, such as the anions of ethylenediamine-NNN N -tetra-acetic acid (EDTA), described in detail by Schwarzen-bach and his school (29, 30), show a pronounced selectivity for alkaline earth and other metal cations (30). Because of the limited lipid solubility of these ligands and their complexes, such compounds are, however, not suited as ion carriers in lipophilic membranes (Fig. 2). The ability... 

These considerations go far to explain the selectivity behavior of a series of macroheterobicyclic ligands (Fig. 9). Table 4 shows that an increase in the number of coordination sites from 6 to 8 or 9 leads to an increased preference for large cations. Ligand VI, with 11 coordination sites is no longer suited for the complexation of even the largest alkali and alkaline earth metal cations. Furthermore, it is clear that a relatively large coordination number (5 6) is required to produce selectivity for divalent ions. 

A more precise cavity control is found with the three-dimensional cryptands and Figure 26 shows the variation of Ks with alkali and alkaline earth metal cations for a range of cryptands.29 Two types of selectivity are displayed. Peak selectivity occurs when there is an excellent correlation between cavity and cation radius (Table 8) and so a sharp discrimination can occur (Figure 26). Plateau selectivity occurs when there is little discrimination between cations of higher radius but discrimination against cations of small radius which are not well accommodated (Figure 26). 

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