Dendrimers binding interactions, cucurbit urils

Binding Interactions of Dendrimers with Cucurbit[n]urils.221... 

Interest in the host binding properties of the cucurbit[ ]urils (CBs) is increasing very quickly. As a result of this growing interest, several reports on the binding interactions between CB hosts and dendrimers are available. However, although very promising, the chemistry of CBs is still less developed than that of CDs and the body of work is much smaller in the former case. Furthermore, the lack of practical synthetic methods for CB functionalization limits the possibilities of structural elaboration around CB hosts. While the CDs have been used as scaffolds for the construction of dendrimers or covalently attached to dendritic structures, similar research work with CBs is still in its infancy. 

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Sobransingh D, Kaifer AE (2005) Binding interactions between the host cucurbit[7]uril and dendrimer guests containing a single ferrocenyl residue. Chem Commun 5071-5073... 

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