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Also known as cucurbiturils, cucurbit[n]uril

[[Image:Models of cucurbiturils.jpg|thumbnail|400px|Computer models of CB[5], CB[6], and CB[7]. Top row is the view into the cavity and the bottom is the side view]]

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Vinony's link graph records 12 inbound references to cucurbituril, and connects out to cis–trans isomerism, supramolecular chemistry and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Vinony files it under 1905 introductions, Macrocycles and Substances discovered in the 1900s.

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  • Synthesis
  • Supramolecular chemistry
  • Supramolecular host molecules
  • Rotaxane macrocycles
  • Supramolecular catalysts
  • Related compounds
  • Systematic name
  • References

[[Image:Models of cucurbiturils.jpg|thumbnail|400px|Computer models of CB[5], CB[6], and CB[7]. Top row is the view into the cavity and the bottom is the side view]]

In host–guest chemistry, cucurbiturils are macrocyclic molecules made of glycoluril () monomers linked by methylene bridges (). The oxygen atoms are located along the edges of the band and are tilted inwards, forming a partly enclosed cavity (cavitand). The name is derived from the resemblance of this molecule with a pumpkin of the family of Cucurbitaceae.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cucurbituril” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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