The title host compound forms crystalline inclusion complexes, the colour of which depend on the guest. It forms a complex with 2-phenylethanol (6), which when heated changes colour and emits the characteristic fragrance of the latter. The complex formed with trichloroacetic acid shows solid-state fluorescence.
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Sakaino et al. (1990) studied this question.