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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2015 Jun 29;137(27):8668–8671. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b03573

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Binding in water by an amphiphilic cavity. Formation of host-guest hydrogen bonds compensates for the desolvation of polar groups and combines with desolvation of hydrophobic surfaces to produce strong complexation.8