Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Cyclodextrins, 1996
Budapest, Hungary, March 31–April 2, 1996

This volume contains the proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Cyclodextrins, held in Budapest, Hungary, March 31-April 2, 1996.
The 147 papers collected here are milestones in the exponentially increasing cyclodextrin literature, and represent a summary of the last two years' achievement in this field, with applications in such diverse disciplines as pharmaceuticals, food, cosmetics, textiles, plastics, and chromatography.
Some highlights: lipophilicity profiles of cyclodextrins by computer molecular graphics; recent toxicological studies on cyclodextrins; Buckminsterfullerene/cyclodextrin complexes; hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin; pharmacokinetics and toxicology; peracylated cyclodextrins as drug carriers; cyclodextrins in nasal drug delivery; textile fibre surface modification by a reactive cyclodextrin; cyclodextrin-containing fabric care products; drug targeting by cyclodextrin-dimers for photodynamic cancer therapy; cyclodextrins in ophthalmologic drugs; new cyclodextrin derivatives and their potentials.
Audience: This book will be of interest to researchers whose work involves pharmaceuticals, food chemicals and flavours, food additives, chromatographic methods, and biotechnology, as well as fundamental cyclodextrin research.

Preface. 1: Cyclodextrins & Derivatives. 1.1. Structures, Physical-Chemical Properties. 1.2. Production of CDs. 1.3. Chemical Modification of CDs. 1.4. Biological Properties. 2: Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes. 2.1. Interaction with Specific Guests. 2.2. Structural Studies. 2.3. Enzyme-Modeling. 3: Cyclodextrins in Pharmaceuticals. 3.1. Drug/CD-Complexes. 3.2. Ocular, Nasal and Transdermal Delivery. 3.3. Specific Formulations. 3.4. Bioavailability and Biomedical Effects. 4: Industrial Applications of Cyclodextrins. 4.1. Biotechnology. 4.2. Textile Industry. 4.3. Food and Cosmetics. 4.4. Environment Protection and Chemical Technologies. 5: Analytical Separations by Cyclodextrins. Subject Index.