Enzyme mimics or artificial enzymes are a class of catalysts that have been actively pursued
for decades and have heralded much interest as potentially viable alternatives to natural …

Cyclodextrins are frequently used as building blocks, because they can be linked both
covalently and noncovalently with specificity. Thus one, two, three, seven, fourteen …

The highly effective catalysis by Nature's enzymes has inspired us, 1-20 and others, to
imitate it. We coined the terms “biomimetic chemistry” 3 and “arti-ficial enzyme” 5, 21 to …

The modification of cyclodextrins offers both enormous opportunities and challenges for
chemists. Opportunities are provided by the fact that, through modifications, cyclodextrins …

Simple chemical catalysts have been designed to achieve some desirable features of
enzymes. These novel catalysts are not proteins, but they may incorporate the typical …

All living things in nature maintain their internal metabolic balances quite well when they are
in healthy conditions. In other words, metabolic materials are in equilibria in each living …

Many active pharmaceutical ingredients show low oral bioavailability due to factors such as
poor solubility and physical and chemical instability. The formation of inclusion complexes …

Cyclodextrins (CDs) are a family of naturally occurring, water-soluble oligosaccharides
forming a bucket-shaped macrocycle and made up of R-(+)-glucopyranose units, which …

Cyclodextrins are naturally occurring, non-toxic and biodegradable cyclic oligosaccharides.
The main feature of cyclodextrins is the ability to encapsulate lipophilic compounds, which …

One of the key areas of importance in biotechnology and bioengineering is molecular
complexation (MC). MC is useful in selectivity, separation, and solubilization of …