A complex in which one component (the host) forms a cavity or, in the case of a crystal, a crystal lattice containing spaces in the shape of long tunnels or channels in which molecular entities of a second chemical species (the guest) are located. There is no covalent bonding between guest and host, the attraction being generally due to van der Waals forces.
Stars
This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing
inclusion compound
(CHEBI:39022)
is a
non-covalently-bound molecular entity
(CHEBI:50967)
