Host-guest chemistry asymmetric

I always measured myself against people I admired. Prelog is someone I have long admired. He and I competed in some early work on asymmetric induction and then later on host-guest chemistry. When he got the Nobel... 

Other morphologies can be obtained, i.e. dendritic nanoclusters and nanotubes, with different chemical approaches which generate a wide variety of different nanoscale architectures and have a promising potential in host-guest chemistry and nanotechnology [76,77]. Asymmetrically functionalized dendritic blocks, e.g. den-drons with polar and apolar groups, self-assemble to produce macromolecules with surfactant properties [78-81]. 

There are a growing number of asymmetric organocatalytic reactions, which are accelerated by weak interactions. This type of catalysis includes neutral host-guest complexation, or acid-base associations between catalyst and substrate. The former case is highly reminiscent of the way that many enzymes effect reactions, by bringing together reactants at an active site and without the formation of covalent bonds. The chemistry of this organocatalysis is discussed in Chapter 13. 

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