Complex packing motifs templated by a pseudo-spherical guest: the structure of β-cyclodextrin–adamantaneinclusion compounds

Abstract

β-Cyclodextrin has been shown to form inclusion compounds with a wide variety of suitably sized guest molecules. In the present study a pseudo-spherical van der Waals guest molecule, adamantane, has been shown to template surprisingly complex packing motifs when incorporated into β-cyclodextrin host frameworks.