properties for carbohydrates of several artificial, acyclic receptors containing two or three heterocyclic recognition units covalently attached to a phenyl spacer is described. These host molecules having uncharged hydrogen-bonding sites were used in a systematic study towards the evaluation of recognition motifs for carbohydrates. A novel effective, acyclic hydrogen-bonding receptor possessing naphthyridine-amide
Simple receptors for the recognition and solubilisation of insoluble tartaric acid in chloroform were designed and synthesised for the first time. Receptors 2 and 3 were successful in solubilising tartaric acid into chloroform forming a 1:1 complex, and were also found to be useful as fluorescent probes for the detection of this substrate. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.