The rates of acid-catalysed hydrolyses of some new macrocyclic ether acetals, analogous in structure to crown ethers, are found to be markedly depressed by some metal ions; the behaviour is consistent with selective cation-binding and a resulting lowering of the basicity of the acetal oxygen atoms.
V. Gold and C. M. Sghibartz, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1978, 507 DOI: 10.1039/C39780000507
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