Arthur Lütringhaus, Godfather of catenanes was born 120 years ago
Professor Arthur Lütringhaus is the pioneer of the chemistry of interlocked supramolecular systems, that he named catenates. Arthur Lüttringhaus (1906-1992)
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Sir Fraser Stoddart (1942-2024)
It is with deep sadness that the Cyclodextrin News shares the passing of Sir Fraser Stoddart, a Giant in the
Olympiadane: Sir Fraser Stoddart’s playful interlocked molecule
Olympiadane is a mind-blowing, mechanically interlocked structure composed of five interlocking macrocycles (not cyclodextrins, though) that resembles the Olympic rings.
A patent application for potential medical use of CD-based (poly)catenanes
Researchers from Kumamoto University (Hidetoshi Arima, Keiichi Motoyama, Taishi Higashi) filed an international patent application on a novel synthesis of