The synthesis, which uses a photoswitchable hydrazone template, might also pave the way for new materials based on γ-cyclodextrin. Cyclodextrins—multiple glucose moieties linked together in a ...

Skipped dienes (also known as 1,4-dienes) can be found in certain insect pheromones, and vinyl cyclopropanes are useful building blocks in organic synthesis. Wilkerson-Hill says the chemists were ...