Inclusion complexes host-guest chemistry

It should be stressed that there is not alwaysjustice in reseach evaluation. The selective formation of inclusion complexes by cyclodextrins (such as 11) was established by Cramer [6] at least 15 years earlier than that by crown ethers. However, cyclodextrin studies forming an independent branch of host-guest chemistry seem underestimated in spite of their considerably greater practical importance at present than that of other host macrocycles (crown ethers 17, calixarenes 18, etc.). Sometimes they are even totally neglected by discussing inclusion phenomena [7]. 

A simple possibility for the synthesis of esters, the reaction of an acid chloride with an alcohol, was used by Schrage and Vogtle [58] for a two-step synthesis of the macrocycle 63 from the alcohol 61 and the acid chloride 62. Compound 63, an example from the field of host/guest chemistry, forms a cavity, as studied with CPK-models, which could include planar, aromatic guests. Crystals obtained from benzene/ -heptane point to a 1 2 stoichiometry of 63 and benzene according to NMR-spectroscopic data. However, whether this is a molecular inclusion complex or just a clathrate is not yet known. 

A direct solution to the problem of enantioselective furan-carbonyl photoproduct synthesis would require a photoaddition that proceeded with enantiofacial selectivity in the aldehyde or furan component and maintained the relative face selectivity that is intrinsic to the reaction. Preliminary work used host-guest chemistry to achieve this objective.In aqueous dioxane, a 1 1 1 inclusion complex of unmodified 3-cyclodextrin, furan and benzaldehyde is formed. Upon irradiation (Hanovia 450 W lamp, Vycor filter), a rapid photoaddition occurs to afford a photoproduct of 10-20% ee. 

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