Particle size effect in the mechanically assisted synthesis of β-cyclodextrin mesitylene sulfonate

• Stéphane Menuel,
• Sébastien Saitzek,
• Eric Monflier and
• Frédéric Hapiot

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2598–2606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.211

• study, we found that the reactivity depended more upon diffusion phenomena in the crystalline parts of the material than on the increase in the surface area of the CD particles resulting from grinding. Keywords: beta-cyclodextrin; chemoselectivity; grinding; mechanosynthesis; reactivity; Introduction

Crystal structure of the inclusion complex of cholesterol in β-cyclodextrin and molecular dynamics studies

• Elias Christoforides,
• Andreas Papaioannou and
• Kostas Bethanis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 838–848, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.69

• Elias Christoforides Andreas Papaioannou Kostas Bethanis Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos, Athens 11855, Greece 10.3762/bjoc.14.69 Abstract The role of beta-cyclodextrin (β-CD) in cholesterol removal primarily from mammalian cells and secondly from

• inclusion compound remains very stable in aqueous solution at both temperatures. Keywords: beta-cyclodextrin; cholesterol; crystal structure; molecular dynamics; Introduction Cholesterol ((3β)-cholest-5-en-3-ol, CHL, Figure 1a) is a polycyclic steroid that is synthesized in mammalian cells and has a

Structure elucidation of β-cyclodextrin–xylazine complex by a combination of quantitative ¹H–¹H ROESY and molecular dynamics studies

• Syed Mashhood Ali,
• Kehkeshan Fatma and
• Snehal Dhokale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1917–1924, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.226

• dynamics wide side-energy-time plot, a molecular dynamics wide side trajectory in c3d format and the proposed beta-cyclodextrin-xylazine complex in c3d format. Acknowledgements Xylazine and β-CD were very kindly provided by Bachem AG, Switzerland, and Geertrui Haest, Cerestar Application Centre, Food