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and Sir James Fraser Stoddart, the “English-Connection”; Italian, e.g., Professor
Benito Casu; German, e.g., Professors Wolfram Saenger and Karl-Heinz Frömming;
American, e.g., Professor Josef Pitha; and French, e.g., Professors Jean-Marie Lehn
and Dominique Duchêne, groups.
Professor Szejtli also worked with the industrial sector, e.g., Chiesi Farmaceutici
Italy, Schwarz Pharma and Hexal Germany, as well as Novartis, Switzerland on the
developments of cyclodextrin-based pharmaceutical products, e.g., Brexin
®
(piroxicam), Prostavasin
®
(alprostadil), Omebeta
®
(omeprazole), Xund
®
(garlic extract),
and Voltaren
®
(diclofenac).
Professor Szejtli not only pioneered the scientific knowledge on cyclodextrin
science and technology, but also he had outstanding merits in organizing international life in this field of research (Szejtli 1982a). In 1981, he organized the First
International Cyclodextrin Symposium in Budapest, Hungary. This symposium was
a great success, with participants coming from all over the world, i.e., more than
180 participants from 17 countries, while Professor Szejtli “expected 25–30 participants outside Hungary.” The 63 submitted manuscripts filled a 544-page volume of
proceedings published by Reidel Publishing (Szejtli 1982b). Since 1984 and
Szejtli’s initiative, a broad community of researchers has met every 2 years to
exchange and share their works on cyclodextrins. The 20th International Cyclodextrin
Symposium will be organized in Sicily, Italy in 2020.
Table 2.1 (continued)
Year Title
Journal
Reference
2001 Cyclodextrin complexes of salts of acidic
drugs. Thermodynamic properties, structural
features, and pharmaceutical applications
Journal of Pharmaceutical
Sciences
Redenti
et al. (2001)
2002 The role of cyclodextrins in chiral selective
chromatography
Trends in Analytical
Chemistry
Szejtli
(2002)
2003 Cyclodextrins in the textile industry
Starch-Stärke
Szejtli
(2003)
2004 Past, present, and future of cyclodextrin
Pure and Applied
Chemistry
Szejtli
(2004a)
2004 Cyclodextrins as food ingredients
Trends in Food Science and
Technology
Szente and
Szejtli
(2004)
2005 Elimination of bitter, disgusting tastes of
drugs and foods by cyclodextrins
European Journal of
Pharmaceutics and
Biopharmaceutics
Szejtli and
Szente
(2005)
2005 Cyclodextrin-complexed generic drugs are
generally not bioequivalent with the reference
products: therefore the increase in number of
marketed drug/cyclodextrin formulations is so
slow
Journal of Inclusion
Phenomena and
Macrocyclic Chemistry
Szejtli
(2005)
G. Crini et al.
and Sir James Fraser Stoddart, the “English-Connection”; Italian, e.g., Professor
Benito Casu; German, e.g., Professors Wolfram Saenger and Karl-Heinz Frömming;
American, e.g., Professor Josef Pitha; and French, e.g., Professors Jean-Marie Lehn
and Dominique Duchêne, groups.
Professor Szejtli also worked with the industrial sector, e.g., Chiesi Farmaceutici
Italy, Schwarz Pharma and Hexal Germany, as well as Novartis, Switzerland on the
developments of cyclodextrin-based pharmaceutical products, e.g., Brexin
®
(piroxicam), Prostavasin
®
(alprostadil), Omebeta
®
(omeprazole), Xund
®
(garlic extract),
and Voltaren
®
(diclofenac).
Professor Szejtli not only pioneered the scientific knowledge on cyclodextrin
science and technology, but also he had outstanding merits in organizing international life in this field of research (Szejtli 1982a). In 1981, he organized the First
International Cyclodextrin Symposium in Budapest, Hungary. This symposium was
a great success, with participants coming from all over the world, i.e., more than
180 participants from 17 countries, while Professor Szejtli “expected 25–30 participants outside Hungary.” The 63 submitted manuscripts filled a 544-page volume of
proceedings published by Reidel Publishing (Szejtli 1982b). Since 1984 and
Szejtli’s initiative, a broad community of researchers has met every 2 years to
exchange and share their works on cyclodextrins. The 20th International Cyclodextrin
Symposium will be organized in Sicily, Italy in 2020.
Table 2.1 (continued)
Year Title
Journal
Reference
2001 Cyclodextrin complexes of salts of acidic
drugs. Thermodynamic properties, structural
features, and pharmaceutical applications
Journal of Pharmaceutical
Sciences
Redenti
et al. (2001)
2002 The role of cyclodextrins in chiral selective
chromatography
Trends in Analytical
Chemistry
Szejtli
(2002)
2003 Cyclodextrins in the textile industry
Starch-Stärke
Szejtli
(2003)
2004 Past, present, and future of cyclodextrin
Pure and Applied
Chemistry
Szejtli
(2004a)
2004 Cyclodextrins as food ingredients
Trends in Food Science and
Technology
Szente and
Szejtli
(2004)
2005 Elimination of bitter, disgusting tastes of
drugs and foods by cyclodextrins
European Journal of
Pharmaceutics and
Biopharmaceutics
Szejtli and
Szente
(2005)
2005 Cyclodextrin-complexed generic drugs are
generally not bioequivalent with the reference
products: therefore the increase in number of
marketed drug/cyclodextrin formulations is so
slow
Journal of Inclusion
Phenomena and
Macrocyclic Chemistry
Szejtli
(2005)
G. Crini et al.