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2. The systematic name for 1 emerges from the most recent `IUPAC Recommendations for the Nomenclature of Carbohydrates' (Carbohydr. Res. 1997, 297, 79, Rule 2-Carb-37.4.2) as cyclo[(1→4)-α-d-altropyranosyl-hexakis-(1→4)-α-d-glucopyranosyl], which, aside of being clumsy, implies it to be an assembly of `glycosyls' rather than a `glycoside', a heptasaccharide in fact. As semisystematic names, e.g. cyclo[mono-α(1→4)-d-altro-hexa-α(1→4)-d-gluco]-heptaoside for 1, are equally impractical, we prefer the designation mono-altro-β-CD as a reasonably descriptive, convenient acronym.
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