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Principles Of Fluorescence Spectroscopy

The affinities of hosts-ranging from small synthetic cavitands to large proteins-for organic molecules are well documented. The average association constants for the binding of organic molecules by cyclodextrins, synthetic hosts, and albumins in water, as well as of catalytic antibodies or enzymes for substrates are 10(3.5+/-2.5) M(-1). Binding affinities are elevated to 10(8+/-2) M(-1) for the complexation of transition states and biological antigens by antibodies or inhibitors by enzymes, and to 10(16+/-4) M(-1) for transition states with enzymes. The origins of the distributions of association constants observed for the broad range of host-guest systems are explored in this Review, and typical approaches to compute and analyze host-guest binding in solution are discussed. In many classes of complexes a rough correlation is found between the binding affinity and the surface area that is buried upon complexation. Enzymes transcend this effect and achieve transition-state binding much greater than is expected from the surface areas.

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Binding Affinities of Host–Guest, Protein–Ligand, and Protein–Transition‐State Complexes

Traditional descriptions of the hydrophobic effect on the basis of entropic arguments or the calculation of solvent-occupied surfaces must be questioned in view of new results obtained with supramolecular complexes. In these studies, it was possible to separate hydrophobic from dispersive interactions, which are strongest in aqueous systems. Even very hydrophobic alkanes associate significantly only in cavities containing water molecules with an insufficient number of possible hydrogen bonds. The replacement of high-energy water in cavities by guest molecules is the essential enthalpic driving force for complexation, as borne out by data for complexes of cyclodextrins, cyclophanes, and cucurbiturils, for which complexation enthalpies of up to -100 kJ mol(-1) were reached for encapsulated alkyl residues. Water-box simulations were used to characterize the different contributions from high-energy water and enabled the calculation of the association free enthalpies for selected cucurbituril complexes to within a 10% deviation from experimental values. Cavities in artificial receptors are more apt to show the enthalpic effect of high-energy water than those in proteins or nucleic acids, because they bear fewer or no functional groups in the inner cavity to stabilize interior water molecules.

The hydrophobic effect revisited--studies with supramolecular complexes imply high-energy water as a noncovalent driving force.

Cyclodextrins (CDs) are cyclic oligosaccharides of natural origin that were discovered more than 100 years ago. The peculiar cone-like conformation of the sugar ring, expressing a lipophilic cavity and a hydrophilic external surface, allows these substances to spontaneously complex poorly soluble compounds in an aqueous environment. For more than 50 years, these substances have found applicability in the pharmaceutical and food industries as solubilizing agents for poorly soluble chemical entities. Nowadays, several research groups all over the world are investigating their potential as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for the treatment of several illnesses (e.g., hypercholesterolemia, cancer, Niemann-Pick Type C disease). The aim of this review is to briefly retrace cyclodextrins’ legacy as complexing agents and describe the current and future prospects of this class of chemical entities in pharmaceutics as new APIs.

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The Potential of Cyclodextrins as Novel Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients: A Short Overview

Water: A comprehensive treatise

An extensive thermodynamic study has been carried out on aqueous solutions obtained through successive dilutions and succussions of 1% wt/vol of some solutes up to extremely diluted solutions, (less than l × 10−5 mol kg−1 ) obtained via several 1/ 100 successive dilution processes. The interaction of acids or bases with the extremely diluted solutions has been studied calorimetrically at 25°C. Measurements have been performed of the heat produced by the mixing of acid or basic solutions of different concentrations, with bidistilled water or with the extremely diluted solutions. Despite the extreme dilution of the solutions, an exothermic heat of mixing in excess has been found in about the 92% of the cases, compared to the corresponding heat of mixing with the untreated solvent. Here, we show that successive dilutions and succussions may permanently alter the physical–chemical properties of the solvent water. The nature of the phenomenon here described still remains unexplained, but significant experimental results are obtained. A thermodynamic study on aqueous solutions gives interesting information about the behavior of solutes and their interactions with the solvent. The interaction of acids or bases with the extremely diluted solutions has been studied calorimetrically at 25°C. The extremely diluted solution is obtained starting from a solution at 1% wt/ vol. After succussion, that solution is named 1CH preceded by the name or formula of the solute. The succussion process consists of vertical shakings of the solution by means of a mechanical apparatus. In a simple succussion process, 100 vertical strokes in six seconds are given to the glass vessel containing the solution. To prepare the successive dilution, 1 g of this solution is added to 99 g of water that again gets succussed, obtaining the 2CH solution. The iteration of this process produces the extremely diluted solutions studied. Measurements have been performed of the heats of mixing of acid or basic solutions of different concentrations with bidistilled water or with solutions, at a concentration of 0.01 mol kg−1, used as reagent, whereas the concentrations of the extremely diluted solutions or with extremely diluted solutions. Procedures for the calorimetric determination of the heat of dilution or mixing are well developed.1 The experimental results are treated according to the MacMillan-Mayer approach,2 modified by Friedman and Krishnan.3 The enthalpies of mixing two solutions are given by the following equations:

Thermodynamics of Extremely Diluted Aqueous Solutions

The 'extremely diluted solutions', anomalous solutions prepared through the iteration of a process of dilution and succussion, have been studied with the aim of obtaining information about the influence of the preparation method on the water structure of the solutions. We measured the heats of mixing of basic solutions with such 'extremely diluted solutions', and their electrical conductivity, comparing with the analogous heats of mixing, electrical conductivity of the solvent. We found some relevant exothermic excess heats of mixing, and higher conductivity than those of the untreated solvent. The heats of mixing and electrical conductivity show a good correlation, underlining a single cause for the behaviour of the extremely diluted solutions.

New Physico-Chemical Properties of Extremely Diluted Aqueous Solutions

Experimental evidence of stable water nanostructures in extremely dilute solutions, at standard pressure and temperature

Thermodynamics of inclusion complexes of natural and modified cyclodextrins with propranolol in aqueous solution at 298 K

An extensive thermodynamic study has been carried out on aqueous solutions, obtained through the iteration of two processes: a dilution 1:100 in mass and a succussion. The iteration is repeated until extreme dilutions are reached (less than 1⋅10–5 mol kg–1 ) to the point that we may call the resulting solution an 'extremely diluted solution'. We conducted a calorimetric study, at 25°C, of the interaction of those solutions with acids or bases. Namely, we measured the heats of mixing of acid or basic solutions with bidistilled water and compared them with the analogous heats of mixing obtained using the 'extremely diluted solutions'. Despite the extreme dilution of the latter solutions, we found a relevant exothermic excess heat of mixing, excess with respects to the corresponding heat of mixing with the untreated solvent. Such an excess has been found in about the totality of measurements, and of a magnitude being well beyond one that could arise any issue of sensibility of the instrumental apparatus. Here we thus show that successive dilutions and succussions can permanently alter the physico-chemical properties of the solvent water. The nature of the phenomena here described still remains unexplained, nevertheless some significant experimental results were obtained.

Marcella Niccoli

Papers

Thermodynamics of Extremely Diluted Aqueous Solutions

New Physico-Chemical Properties of Extremely Diluted Aqueous Solutions

Experimental evidence of stable water nanostructures in extremely dilute solutions, at standard pressure and temperature

Thermodynamics of inclusion complexes of natural and modified cyclodextrins with propranolol in aqueous solution at 298 K

New Physico-chemical Properties of Water Induced by Mechanical Treatments. A calorimetric study at 25°C