About the book
Since the discovery of toroidal oligosaccharide-based seminatural products so-called cyclodextrins around 130 years ago by Villiers, they seem to be the most studied macrocyclic hosts in supramolecular chemistry. Interestingly, cyclodextrins are produced hundreds-of-thousands of tons every year through environmentally benign techniques and methods. More importantly, their crucial properties can be altered significantly through their ability to form inclusion complexes and also utilize their functionalizations. Remarkably, their unique ‘molecular encapsulation feature’ had already been exploited in a myriad of industrial products, technologies, & analytical practices. And their fascination towards researchers & industrialists worldwide could be seen from their diverse vital applications in pharmacy, biomedicine, nanotechnology, environmental protection, wastewater treatment, solar cells, conducting polymer, catalysis, drug-carriers, agrochemistry & cosmetology, etc. In contrast to the earlier books on cyclodextrins, herewith we planned to showcase the new developments in this emerging area with an intention, Of where this wonderful field presently stands and where it might go in years to come. Hope this new package in cyclodextrin chemistry would be informative to the readers of both academia & industry in addition to the undergraduate and post-graduate students.
