Peering into the Kaleidoscope of Cyclodextrins

摘要

Cyclodextrins (CDs) are known to us for 130 years, yet they remain ever as new and as fascinating as in their early years, when Villiers marveled at the unexpected growth of “beautiful radiated crystals” in the alcoholic media of his experiments on bacterial fermentation of starches, or when Freudenberg struggled to solve the puzzle of their unusual shape and structure [1]. In the present day, cyclodextrins have grown into a large and sophisticated family of compounds owing to the skilled research teams that have developed a myriad of derivatives appropriate for the most diverse applications.