15-Crown-5, 98%, Thermo Scientific Chemicals

General References:

1. Crown ether (see Appendix 2) especially suited to complexing sodium ions. Thus, catalyzes the O-alkylation of the Na salts of carboxylic acids in the penicillin and cephalosporin series, providing a method for esterification without exposure to acid: Synthesis, 52, (1986).
2. Greatly facilitates the Williamson synthesis of ethers with hindered alcohols and NaH: Tetrahedron Lett., 38, 4679 (1997). Promotes the cleavage of unsymmetrical ethers by Sodium iodide, A15480, in the opposite sense to BBr₃, i.e. by nucleophilic displacement from the less substituted carbon atom: Tetrahedron Lett., 22, 4239 (1981).
3. Greatly increases the reactivity of phosphonate anions generated by reaction with NaH in the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction. Thus, has been used in a high-yield synthesis of stilbenes from aldehydes and Diethyl benzyl phosphonate, A10645: Synthesis, 117 (1981).
4. Use in combination with Lithium aluminum hydride, A18116, enables reductions to be carried out in hydrocarbon solvents: J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1234 (1985).
5. Kuo, T. Y.; Tseng, W. H.; Chen, C. H. Force Spectroscopy of Metal-Crown Ether Multivalency: Effect of Local Environments on Energy Landscape and Sensing Kinetics. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54 (32), 9213-9217.
6. Inokuchi, Y.; Ebata, T.; Rizzo, T. R. Solvent Effects on the Encapsulation of Divalent Ions by Benzo-18-Crown-6 and Benzo-15-Crown-5. J. Phys. Chem. A 2015, 119 (29), 8097-8105.