Cyclodextrins as molecular reactors

Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia 

Molecular Encapsulation Organic Reactions in Constrained Systems Edited by Udo H. Brinker and Jean-Luc Mieusset 2010 John Wiley Sons, Ltd 

This behavionr is in many ways like that displayed by enzymes and other authors have therefore used the term artificial enzymes instead of molecular reactors. However, the need for a different term has become more important since recent rapid advances in molecular biology have provided tools for protein engineering to produce entirely new catalysts that might be more obviously classed as artificial enzymes, while molecular reactors encompass a much broader range of species. Another important distinction is 

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C. J. Easton, Cyclodextrins as molecular reactors, next chapter in this book. 

C. J. Easton, J. B. Harper, S. F. Lincoln, lV,lV-Bis(6 -deoxy-ot-cyclodextrin-6 -yl)urea as a molecular template in the formation of indigoid dyes. New J. Chem., 1998, 22, 1163—1165 J. B. Harper, C. J. Eastorr, S. F. Lincoln, A cyclodextrin-based molecular reactor to template the formation of indigoid dyes. Tetrahedron Lett., 2003, 44, 5815-5818. 

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