Abstract
Three kinds of cyclodextrin (CD) dimer (one homo-dimer of β-CD and two types of hetero-dimer of α-CD and β-CD) were synthesized as artificial hydrolases. The initial rates of the cleavage reaction of p-nitrophenyl methoxyethoxyethoxyacetate ( 8) by each of the three dimers were measured under the condition of excess of substrate at 25 °C in a pH 7.4 phosphate buffer solution. In a plot of initial rate against concentration of the substrate, the reaction with the homo-dimer ( βCβH 5) gave a sigmoidal curve, whereas the reaction with either of the hetero-dimers gave a simple hyperbolic curve. Only βCβH 5 showed homotropic cooperativity, with a Hill constant of 1.8.
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