Competitive inclusion of chloro-substituted acetic acids into β-cyclodextrin monitored by rotational correlation frequencies of 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl-1-oxy radical
Competitive inclusion in β-cyclodextrin between 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl-1-oxy and chloro-substituted acetic acids has been monitored by esr spectroscopy. The temperature dependence of the rotational correlation frequencies calculated by Kivelson's equation, using esr spectra of the radical, suggests that a structural change of β-cyclodextrin occurs at about 30 °C and that trichloroacetic acid is included extensively at 20–35 °C, but significant inclusion of acetic acid is not observed. The degree of competitive inclusion is in the order of trichloro, dichloro, and monochloroacetic acids over the range of 20–80 °C. Carbon-13 nmr studies also prove the inclusion of trichloroacetic acid showing an inclusion shift of the trichloromethyl carbon by 1.4 ppm.