Sentences with phrase «make cyclodextrins»

Last year, two groups led by Jacques Defaye at the French national research centre CNRS, and Fraser Stoddart, then at the University of Sheffield, independently reported making another cyclodextrin derivative, per (3,6 - anhydro) cyclodextrin.

Not exact matches

Now Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and colleagues have devised a cage made of gamma - cyclodextrin, a ring of glucose molecules often used as a food additive (Angewandte Chemie, DOI: 10.1002 / anie.201002343).

Now researchers in the US have discovered how to modify cyclodextrins to take other chemical groups, opening the way to making related compounds with useful new properties.

Cyclodextrin molecules are made from a ring of six, seven or eight hexagonal sugar units linked end to end.

D'Souza's team used an efficient reaction to make the intermediate, heptakis -2,3-epoxy-beta-cyclodextrin, from a known silicon - containing derivative of beta - cyclodextrin (Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1992, p 1112).

To top it off, β - cyclodextrin polymers are also cheap to make — a detail that surprised Richardson.

The Johns Hopkins team used a microshell made of a sugar - based polymer called cyclodextrin to protect the 3BrPA drug molecules from disintegrating early and to guard healthy tissue from the drug's toxic effects, such as weight loss, hypothermia and lethal hypoglycemic shock.

It's a polymer made of repeated units of two different molecules linked together: a giant ring - shaped molecule called beta - cyclodextrin that's made from cornstarch, and a fluorine - rich molecule called decafluorobiphenyl, or DFB.