K. Chmurski et al., DIRECT SYNTHESIS OF AMPHIPHILIC ALPHA-CYCLODEXTRINS, BETA-CYCLODEXTRINS, AND GAMMA-CYCLODEXTRINS, Journal of carbohydrate chemistry, 15(7), 1996, pp. 787-796
The clean one step synthesis of the amphiphilic alpha-, beta-, and gam
ma-cyclodextrins starting from per-(6-bromo-6-deoxy)-alpha-, -beta-, a
nd -gamma-cyclodextrins is described. The role of the lipophilic tail
is played by various aryl groups (phenyl, p-bromophenyl, p-O-butoxyphe
nyl, p-pentylphenyl, and o-, m-, and p-nitrophenyl) linked by a thioet
her bridge to the position C-6 of each glucopyranose unit. The yields
of the S-alkylation reactions were very high (85-95%).