Chemistry Letters, Vol.29, No.5, 564-565, 2000
The first lipophilic face-to-face dimers of permethylated alpha-cyclodextrin-azobenzene dyads through a p-xylylene spacer
The synthesis of two new permethylated alpha-cyclodextrin derivatives 1 and their self-association to stable lipophilic face-to-face dimers 2 are described.