Cyclodextrins

Introduction

PART I: CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF CDs
1 CD-based Rotaxanes and Polyrotaxanes as Representative Supramolecules
2 CD-based Micelles, Vesicles and Metal Nanoparticles
3 CD Inclusion Complexes
4 CD Dimers

PART II: POLYMERIC CDs
5 CD Multiarm Polymers
6 CD-based Dendrimers
7 CD-based Polymeric Gels

PART III: CD ASSEMBLIES WITH NANOCARBONS AND FINAL REMARKS CONCERNING CD APPLICATIONS
8 CD Assemblies with Nanocarbons
9 CD Applications

Conclusion

Wanda Sliwa is Professor of Chemistry at Jan Dlugosz University of Czestochowa, Poland. She obtained her Ph.D. from Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) and then became assistant professor and later on associate professor at the same university. After a year of research at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France, she moved to Jan Dlugosz University of Czestochowa in 1981. She has been there vice-rector, head of the Organic Chemistry Department and director of the Institute of Chemistry. She has published around 320 papers, three books and ten patents to her name. Her research is focused on azaaromatic compounds and supramolecular chemistry.

Tomasz Girek is an assistant professor at Jan Dlugosz University of Czestochowa, Poland. He studied chemistry there and obtained his Ph.D. from Silesian University in Katowice, Poland. He spent almost three years as a research fellow in the group of Prof. K. Matsumoto at Kyoto University (Japan) and in the group of Prof. S.-T. Lim at Korea University in Seoul (South Korea). He then joined the Department of Organic Chemistry at Jan Dlugosz University. He has published 35 papers and one book. He is a member of the Polish Chemical Society and European Cyclodextrin Society. His research interests are in the field of cyclodextrin chemistry and supramolecular chemistry.

W. Sliwa, Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, Poland; T. Girek, Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, Poland