Cyclic oligoglucosides containing 5 to
ca. 10 glucose residues in which an enclosed tubular space allows reception of a
guest molecule to form a
clathrate. The synonymous term Schardinger
dextrins is not recommended. (α-Cyclodextrin has 6 glucose residues; β-cyclodextrin has 7.)
Semi-systematically α-cyclodextrin is called cyclomaltohexaose.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on
structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1330
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A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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