MODIFIED CYCLODEXTRINS (CYCLODEXTRIN STRUCTURE AND COMPLEXATION BEHAVIOUR)

Аннотация

The first reports of the naturally occurring cyclodextrins (CDs) appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries [1,2]. Since then the study of CDs has gained increasing momentum to the point where Szejtli commented that more than 15,000 CD related papers appeared in the literature by the end of 1997 [3]. Apart from their intrinsic interest, of facination with these cyclic oligosaccharideshas largely arisen from the homochiral doughnut-like annular structures of the smaller CDs and their ability to complex other molecules within their annuli.