Solid state polycondensation within cyclodextrin channels leading to watersoluble polyamide rotaxanes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(97)00980-0

α,ω-Aminocarboxylic acids form microcrystalline inclusion compounds with α-cyclodextrin. In these inclusion compounds cyclodextrins build up channel structures, in which the α,ω-aminocarboxylic acids can be polycondensed at 200-240°C. As the resulting pol