Crown jewels: The judicious use of weakly coordinating anions has recently led to the first direct syntheses of alkali-metal complexes of siloxane-based crown ethers and cryptands. These findings have implications in the areas of host–guest chemistry, inorganic ring transformations, and ring-opening polymerization.
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