First Header Logo Second Header Logo

Crown Ethers

"Crown Ethers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Macrocyclic polyethers with the repeating unit of (-CH2-CH2-O)n where n is greater than 2 and some oxygens may be replaced by nitrogen, sulfur or phosphorus. These compounds are useful for coordinating CATIONS. The nomenclature uses a prefix to indicate the size of the ring and a suffix for the number of heteroatoms.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Crown Ethers" by people in this website by year, and whether "Crown Ethers" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
_