As we can obviously see in Table 3, -CD showed marginal complexation
capacity toward -caryophyllene 11. This could be due
to the smallest cavity of -CD among the studied CDs. Being a
sesquiterpene, -caryophyllene 11 has a large volume that does
not fit with the size of the -CD cavity. -CD in its turn showed no
complexation ability for linalool 9 and citronellal 10 which present
a linear structure. This proved that the performance of CDs largely
depends on geometric complementarity (size and shape) between
their cavity and the guest.
The