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A new photoresponsive crown ether with an ammonium-group tail was synthesised in which the ion-binding ability changes in response to photoirradiation because of competitve intramolecular ‘tail-biting’ in the cis-form produced by photoisomerisation.
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Shinkai et al. (1984) studied this question.
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