molecules Communication Structural Insights into the Host–Guest Complexation between β-Cyclodextrin and Bio-Conjugatable Adamantane Derivatives Jian-Wei Wang 1, Ka-Xi Yu 1, Xin-Yuan Ji 1, Hongzhen Bai 1, Wen-Hua Zhang 2 , Xiurong Hu 1,* and Guping Tang 1,* 1 Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China;
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[email protected] (G.T.) Abstract: Understanding the host–guest chemistry of α-/β-/γ- cyclodextrins (CDs) and a wide range of organic species are fundamentally attractive, and are finding broad contemporary applications toward developing efficient drug delivery systems. With the widely used β-CD as the host, we herein demonstrate that its inclusion behaviors toward an array of six simple and bio-conjugatable adaman- tane derivatives, namely, 1-adamantanol (adm-1-OH), 2-adamantanol (adm-2-OH), adamantan-1- amine (adm-1-NH2), 1-adamantanecarboxylic acid (adm-1-COOH), 1,3-adamantanedicarboxylic acid (adm-1,3-diCOOH), and 2-[3-(carboxymethyl)-1-adamantyl]acetic acid (adm-1,3-diCH2COOH), offer inclusion adducts with diverse adamantane-to-CD ratios and spatial guest locations. In all six cases, β-CD crystallizes as a pair supported by face-to-face hydrogen bonding between hydroxyl Citation: Wang, J.-W.; Yu, K.-X.; Ji, groups on C2 and C3 and their adjacent equivalents, giving rise to a truncated-cone-shaped cavity X.-Y.; Bai, H.; Zhang, W.-H.; Hu, X.; to accommodate one, two, or three adamantane derivatives.