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Which of the following statements is correct regarding crown ethers?
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- 1A large number of metal-oxygen interactions will always disfavor the stability constant.
- 2Crown ethers are cyclic polymers represented as (-OCH2CHO-)n.
- 3The selectivity of crown ethers for alkali and alkaline earth metal cations is due to hard oxygen-donor atoms.✓
- 4In crown ether complexes, the bonding interactions to trap cations are Van der Waals in nature.
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The selectivity of crown ethers for alkali and alkaline earth metal cations is due to hard oxygen-donor atoms.
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