Channel inclusion compounds design

Figure 2 Projection in the ac plane of the inclusion compound (6)4-(benzene) showing several host molecular staircases (hexagonal projection). The guest molecules occupy interstitial channels between these staircases. Host hydrogen atoms are omitted for clarity. In this figure, and subsequent ones, the opposite enantiomers are indicated by white or black carbon atoms, and the atom designators N (horizontal hatching) and Br (diagonal hatching), are used.

Other subsidiary descriptive terms used to illustrate the spatial relationships between host and guest refer to the designations "layer-type" (two-dimensionally open), "channel-type" (one-dimensionally open), and cage-type" (totally enclosed) inclusion compound, also termed "intercalates." "tubulates." and "cryptates," respectively, which makes further coinbinations of descriptive hybrid terms possible, e.g., tubulatoclathrate indicating a channel-type clathrate and so Even more precise... 

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