“…As compared to the abundance of cyclodextrin (CD) inclusion compounds which have been determined by X-ray crystallography (Saenger, 1984;Harata, 1996), relatively few structures of substituted CD's other than O-methylated derivatives have been elucidated (Harata, 1998). In the case of β-CD's monosubstituted at the primary carbon (C-6), the tethered substituent of one β-CD unit, such as t-butylthio (Hirotsu et al, 1982;Fujita et al, 1985), phenylthio and phenylsulfinyl (Kamitori et al, 1987), azido (Charpin et al, 1990), 2-hydroxypropyloxy (Harata et al, 1991) and (6-aminohexyl)amino (Mentzafos et al, 1996), is included in the cavity of another substituted β-CD. This simultaneous functioning of a molecule as host and guest provides unique three-dimensional self-assemblies, most notably helical polymers (Hirotsu et al, 1982;Kamitori et al, 1987).…”