Telling top and bottom apart: Supramolecular receptors can discriminate between the “top” and “bottom” sides of a single guest molecule, such as caffeine (see picture). This reversible enantiofacial differentiation results in the preferential formation of the α or β complexes.
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Schopohl et al. (2003) studied this question.
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