An air-supported liquid crystal system for real-time reporting of host-guest inclusion events
Fang Zuo1, Zhijian Liao, Chenxu Zhao
1College of Chemistry & Environment Protection Engineering, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu 610041, China. poymerzf@126.com.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 10, 2014
Abstract:
A new method for reporting host-guest inclusion phenomena using an air-supported liquid crystal (LC) system based on cyclodextrins (CDs) was developed. In this work inclusion complexation of β-CD with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) or with methylene blue (MB) using SDS as the probe was visualized using the LC, according to the principle that the orientation of LCs was coupled to the organization of SDS molecules.
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