Yoshihisa Inoue, George W. Gokel

• Preface, Contributors, 1 Thermodynamics of Cation-Macrocycle Complexation: Enthalpy Entropy Compensation, 2 Understanding Cation-Macrocycle Binding Selectivity in Single-Solvent , Extraction, and Liquid Membrane Systems by Quantifying Thermodynamic Interactions, 3 Conductometric Behavior of Cation-Macrocycle Complexes in Solutions, 4 Rates and Mechanisms of Complexation Reactions of Cations with Crown Ethers and Related Macrocycles, 5 Electrostatic Ion Binding by Synthetic Receptors, 6 Cation Binding by Lariat Ethers, 7 Crystallography of Cation Complexes of Lariat Ethers, 8 Redox Control of Cation Binding in Macrocyclic Systems, 9 Dynamic Control of Cation Binding, 10 Application of Macrocycles to Ion-Selective Electrodes, 11 Complexation by Chromoionophores, 12 Cation Binding by Natural and Modified Ionophores: From Natural Ionophore to Synthetic Ionophore, 13 Unsaturated Crown Ethers: Synthesis, Cation Binding, and Reactions, 14 Complexation by Crown Ethers of Low Symmetry, 15 Cation Complexation by Calixarenes, 16 Mixed-Donor Macrocycles: Solution and Structural Aspects of Their Complexation with Transition and Post-Transition Ions, 17 Second-Sphere Coordination of Transition Metal Complexes by Crown Ethers, 18 Macrocyclic Complexes of Lanthanide Ions, Index