S. Filipek et al., POLAROGRAPHIC STUDY OF TL-SOLVENTS(, LI+, NA+, K+, AND CS+ COMPLEXES WITH MONENSIN ANION IN DIPOLAR APROTIC), Monatshefte fuer Chemie, 125(8-9), 1994, pp. 801-809
The stability constants, K-s, of monensin complexes with Li+, Na+, Kand Cs+ ions were studied by a competitive polarographic method using
the Tl+/Tl(Hg) redox couple as a sensitive electrochemical probe. The
K-s values are strongly influenced by the solvents (acetonitrile, prop
ionitrile, acetone, N,N-dimethylformamide, N-methyl pyrolidinone, N,N-
dimethylacetamide, dimethylsulfoxide, N,N-diethylformamide and N,N-die
thylacetamide were used in experiments) and vary inversely with the Gu
tmann donicity scale. Molecular mechanics computations revealed the pr
obable structures of the complexes.