Analytical Chemistry of Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Compounds [Hardcover]

Crown ethers and calixarenes - the latter ones discovered only recently - are powerful complexing ligands for alkali and alkaline earth metals. This led to their immediate and wide-spread application in biosciences. This book is exclusively devoted to the very promising applications of these compounds in analytical chemistry. It focusses on solvent extraction, chromatography, spectroscopy and electroanalytical methods.Synthesis of Compounds.- Characterisation of the compounds.- Complexation-Equilibria.- Separation methods-Review.- Solvent Extraction Separations; - Chromatographic Separations.- Membrane Transport Phenomena.- Spectroscopic methods.- Fluorescences Techniques.- Electroanalytical (Poloarography) methods.- Ion Selective Electrodes.- Analytical Applications.- Toxicity of the compounds-preventions.The book covers the high potential of these compounds as analytical reagents for the quantitative analysis of elements