Fantastic cyclodextrin chemistry by Carmen Ortiz Mellet, Jose Manuel Garcia Fernandez, and Francisco Mendicuti et al.
β-cyclodextrin (βCyD) derivatives equipped with aromatic appendages at the secondary face exhibit tailorable self-assembling capabilities. Supramolecular species can thus form that, at their turn, can engage in further co-assembling with third components in a highly regulated manner; the design of nonviral gene delivery systems is an illustrative example.
