Templation and Inverse Crown Chemistry

Having acquired the ground rules of alkali metal organonitrogen compound aggregation as outlined in the previous section, how does one begin to generate new architectures and, as structure is intimately linked to reactivity, new chemistry, i.e., how can we synthesize new metal-organonitrogen compounds which do not con- 

Entry Group 1 Group 2 Amide Core Host ring size 

The ether designation is dropped here because these inverse crowns do not contain any oxygen-based anions. 

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