macrobicyclicadj.

1968 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 89 2429/1 The shapes that the macrobicyclic amines assume is revealed by a remarkable isomerization of their ammonium salts.

1984 N. N. Greenwood & A. Earnshaw Chem. of Elements (1986) iv. 109 Another group of very effective ligands that have recently been employed to coordinate alkali metal cations are the macrobicyclic crypts of which N{(CH₂CH₂O)₂CH₂CH₂}₃N is representative.

1993 Nature 6 May 30/3 The remaining section focuses on the complexes of both natural and synthetic macrocyclic molecules... Included is an extended discussion of the chemistry of macrobicyclic ligands (the cryptands) and their complexes (the cryptates).