Abstract
Highly-substituted crown ethers can he synthesized efficiently from tertiary and neopentyl diols. Nonamethyl-14-crown-4 and methyl-didecalino-14-crown-4 ethers are lipophilic and highly soluble in organic solvents and function as efficient, lithium-selective extractants.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5373-5376 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Tetrahedron Letters |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 34 |
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| State | Published - 1993 |