Chemistry Letters, Vol.30, No.12, 1264-1265, 2001
The first [5]supercyclodextrin whose cyclopentameric array is held only by a mechanical bond
The first [5]supercyclodextrin 1s whose nano-sized cyclopentameric array is held only by a mechanical bond was synthesized by the pentakis-azo coupling of a new hermaphrodite monomer 2 with 2-naphthol as a stopper, isolated by chromatography, and characterized by MS, 2D NMR, and vis spectral methods with the help of computer simulation.