Twelfth International Symposium on Macrocyclic Chemistry, Hiroshima, Japan, 20–23 July 1987
This conference is part of the Macrocyclic Chemistry series.
  Preface
        
        The productive scientific career of Charles J. Pedersen supplemented by an account of the discovery of 'crown ethers'
        
        Quantitative description of macrocycle-mediated cation separations in liquid membranes and on silica gel as a function of system parameters
        
        Lariat ethers: from cation complexation to supramolecular assemblies
        
        Conception and birth of new receptor chemistry from dibenzo-18-crown-6
        
        Synthesis of perfluoro crown ethers: a new class of cyclic fluorocarbons
        
        Role of preorganization in host-guest-chemistry
        
        Conformational and complexational characteristics of calixarenes
        
        Kinetics and mechanism of the hydrolysis of functional groups in the side-chain of macrocyclic Cu2+-complexes
        
        Redox properties of tetraaza-macrocycles of iron, ruthenium and osmium
        
        Use of macrocyclic polythiaether ligands in structure-reactivity studies of copper (II)/(I)
        
        1,4,7-Triazacyclononane and N,N'N''-trimethyl-1,4,7-triazacyclononane - two versatile macrocycles for the synthesis of monomeric and oligomeric metal complexes
        
        Macrocyclic complexes of the platinum metals
        
        Large polyazacycloalkanes: ligational properties and anion coordination chemistry
        
        Artificial receptors for biologically active molecules
        
        Functionalization of crown ethers: an approach to the enzyme model for peptide synthesis
        
        Macrocyclic catechol-containing ligands
        
        Inclusion behaviour of azacyclophanes holding various hydrophobic cavities
        
        Metallomacrocycles: novel amphoteric macrocycles with metal ions and traditional Lewis bases as binding sites
        
        Axial ligation to low spin iron(II) macrocycles: inorganic and biomimetic applications
        
        Design features of ionophores for ion selective electrodes
        
        Polymer/liquid crystal composite membranes: a new membrane system for crown-mediated ion transport
        
        Artificial allosteric systems
        
        