Today’s cyclodextrin is about using CDs as catalysts in green chemistry.
At CarboHyde we are committed to develop as green solutions as possible, industrially scalable and economical.
Makoto Komiyama from The University of Tokyo published a great summary of Monomeric, Oligomeric, Polymeric, and Supramolecular Cyclodextrins as Catalysts for Green Chemistry where he comprehensively covers recent developments of cyclodextrin-mediated chemical transformations for green chemistry.
How does cyclodextrin-based catalysis work?
Their most important feature is to form inclusion complexes with reactants, intermediates, and/or catalysts. As a result, their cavities serve as sterically restricted and apolar reaction fields to promote the efficiency and selectivity of reactions.
