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Solvation of a calix[4]resorcinarene and its anions in water-organic media of varying composition was characterized by solubility measurements, acid-base titration and X-ray structural analysis. Methanol, 2-propanol, and DMSO capable of developing calix[4]resorcinarene solvated complexes of varying structure and stability were used as the organic component. It was revealed that the influence of the organic component of water-organic solvents on the stability of guest-host complexes formed by some organic and complex cations with calix[4]resorcinarene anions depended on the structure of the complexes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copolyethers and polyurethanes containing lower and upper rim calix[4]arene units in the fixed cone conformation were prepared in good yield by polycondensation reactions of distal calix[4]arene diols with bisphenol-A/dibromomethane and 2,4-tolylendiisocyanate (TDI), respectively. In a similar way were prepared calix[4]arene-crown-5 and -crown-6 polyurethanes in the fixed 1,3-alternate conformation by condensation of TDI with lower rim calixcrown-5 and calixcrown-6 diols. However, the poor solubility in common organic solvents of the copolyether derivatives (Mw=11,100–11,600 g/mol) hampered further studies on their ionophoric properties. Aiming to obtain model compounds for the investigation of both extraction abilities and ionophoric properties of the polyurethane materials, several bis-urethanes were also synthesized by reaction of the calix[4]arene diols with p-tolylisocyanate (TI). The extraction ability measurements of monomeric and polymeric calix[4]arene urethanes (Mw=12,300–83,500 g/mol) towards alkali metal cations (Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+) and Ag+showed a remarkable efficiency and selectivity of calixcrown-6 polyurethane toward Rb+, Cs+and Ag+. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The effect of dielectric and chemical (donor-acceptor interactions, cohesion energy density) properties of aqueous-organic solvents (water-methanol, water-2-propanol, water-acetonitrile, water-acetone, water-dioxane) on the thermodynamic functions of complexation of sodium and potassium cations with 18-crown-6 ether at 298 K was subjected to overall correlation analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]