Concise and efficient strategies toward the synthesis of
D2h- and
D3h-sy
mmetric cyclodextrin analoguesalternating
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mages/gifchars/alpha.gif" BORDER=0>'-trehalose disaccharide subunits and pseudoa
mide seg
ments (cyclotrehalans, CTs) arereported. The confor
mational properties of these cyclooligosaccharides are governed by the rigidity ofthe
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mages/gifchars/alpha.gif" BORDER=0>'-trehalose disaccharide repeating unit and the partial double-bond character of the N-(C=X)linkages. In contrast to the typical concave-shaped cavity of cyclodextrins (CDs), CTs feature a convex-shaped hydrophobic cavity in which the
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middle">-face of the
monosaccharide subunits is oriented toward theinner side, as supported by NMR and
modeling (
molecular
mechanics and dyna
mics) studies. In the caseof cyclodi
meric CTs (CT2s), the existence of intra
molecular hydrogen bonds results in collapsed cavities,too s
mall to allow the for
mation of inclusion co
mplexes with organic
molecules. Cyclotri
meric CTs(CT3s) display cavity sizes that are inter
mediate between those of
mages/gifchars/alpha.gif" BORDER=0>CD and
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middle">CD, ideally suited for theco
mplexation of co
mple
mentary guests with ternary sy
mmetry such as ada
mantane 1-carboxylate (AC).The higher flexibility of the pseudoa
mide bridges as co
mpared with classical glycosidic linkages endowthese glyconanocavities with so
me confor
mational adaptability properties,
making the
m better suitedthan CDs for co
mplexation of angular guests, as seen fro
m co
mparative inclusion capability experi
mentsagainst the fluorescent probes 6-
p-toluidinonaphthalene-2-sulfonate (TNS; linear) and 8-anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonate (ANS; angular).