Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introductory remarks / Michio Hiraoka
  • 2. Recent advances in syntheses of crown compounds / Mitsuo Okahara and Yohji Nakatsuji
  • 3. Characteristics of new crown compounds / Hiroshi Tsukube
  • 4. Applications of crown compounds to analytical and separation chemistry / Keiichi Kiumra and Toshiyuki Shono
  • 5. Enzyme modelling with crown ethers / Shigeki Sasaki and Kenji Koga
  • 6. Amine-selective colour complexation with chromogenic "acerands": principle and applications / Takahiro Kaneda
  • 7. New developments in "switched-on" crown ethers / Seiji Shinkai
  • 8. New developments in macrocyclic polyamine chemistry / Eiichi Kimura.