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Selective oligosaccharide recognition remains a challenge for supramolecular chemistry. Tricyclic receptor 1 was designed to bind the all-equatorial β-cellobiosyl unit in 2. Remarkably, it succeeds while showing no detectable affinity for five other mono- and disaccharide substrates.
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