The feasibility of fabricating copper-sensitive chemically modified electrodes (CMEs) for trace analysis in aqueous and in 40% (v/v) ethanol-water media was investigated. Carbon paste electrodes modified with crown ethers were constructed by mixing the crown ethers into a graphite powder-paraffin oil matrix. The electrodes so formed were able to bind Cu(II) ions chemically and gave better volta...

We investigate strategies for increasing the thermopower of crown-ether-bridged anthraquinones. The novel design feature of these molecules is the presence of either () crown-ether or () diaza-crown-ether bridges attached to the side of the current-carrying anthraquinone wire. The crown-ether side groups selectively bind alkali-metal cations and when combined with TCNE or TTF dopants, provide a...

Salt metathesis reactions between ethylenediamine (en) solutions of the K(3)E(7) (E = P, As) Zintl phases and post-transition metal halides (InCl(3), TlCl, SnI(2) and PbI(2)) have yielded a family of novel heteroatomic cluster anions, [In(E(7))(2)](3-), [TlE(7)](2-) and [E'E(15)](3-) (E' = Sn, Pb; E = P, As). Several of these new species have been characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffracti...

The title compound, [Fe(C(10)H(20)O(5))(H(2)O)(2)][Fe(2)(C(4)N(2)S(2))(4)]·2C(10)H(20)O(5), consists of an [Fe(II)(15-crown-5)(H(2)O)(2)](2+) cation, sandwiched between and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonded by two additional 15-crown-5 ether mol-ecules and two independent [Fe(III)(mnt)(2)](-) anions, where 15-crown-5 ether denotes 1,4,7,10,13-penta-oxacyclo-penta-decane and mnt denotes cis-1,2-dicyano-1,2-...