“…A number of papers have been dealing with design of the artificial supramolecular hosts for amino acids recognition (Mikros et al, 1991;Aldrich-Wright et al, 1997;Barboiu et al, 1997;Barboiu et al, 1999;Bazzicalupi et al, 2003;Gao et al, 2003;Imai et al, 2004;Wang et al, 2004;Kruppa et al, 2006;Ochiai et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2009). Barboiu et al (1997) isolated a series of complexes between L-amino acids and a macrocyclic receptor composed of a dibenzo-18-crown-6 unit endowed with two protonated 10-aminodecylcarbonyl side arms in the solid state.…”