Introduction and historical perspective (F. Voegtle, E. Weber).
Some general synthetic strategies towards macrocyclic systems (J. Breitenbach, J. Boosfeld, F. Voegtle).
Receptors for organic guest molecules: general principles (H.-J. Schneider, A. K. Mohammad-Ali).
Calixarenes and related hosts (R. Ungaro, A. Pochini). Well-defined inclusion cavities for structure discrimination of organic guests (K. Koga, K. Odashima). Cyclophane hosts: binding of lipophilic and cationic guests (D.A. Dougherty). Cyclophane hosts: endoacidic, endobasic and endolipophilic large cavities (F. Voegtle, C. Seel, P.-M. Windscheif). Cyclophane hosts for quinone guests (C.A. Hunter). Cyclophane hosts: binding of polyols and related guests (Y. Aoyama). The role of the cavity in the design of high-efficiency hosts (B.J. Whitlock, H.W. Whitlock). Cryptophanes (A. Collet). Carcerands and hemicarcerands: hosts that imprison molecular guests (E. Maverick, D.J. Cram).
Large water-soluble cavities (Y. Murakami, O. Hayashida). Hydrogen-bonding receptors: open-chain catalytic systems (A. Bell, E. Anslyn). Cucurbituril (W.L. Mock). Simultaneous binding of cations and neutral molecules (W. Verboom, D.N. Reinhoudt). From chloride katapinates to trinucleotide complexes: developments in molecular recognition of anionic species (C. Seel, J. de Mendoza). Simultaneous binding of cations and anions (M.T. Reetz).
