Alkyltrimethylammonium chloride, structure

Nature of the Aggregates. The aggregates are hydrophobic, loose structures with some residual surface charge from the anionic polymer. The fluorescence decay rate constants k of pyrene in aggregates of PMA and C TAB, are identical to corresponding rate constants the kj in micellar alkyltrimethylammonium chloride,... 

Quats are included in the list of surfactants for EOR, but technically they are used in other oil field operations, particularly in drilling muds. Their cationic nature, ability to emulsify oils plus potent germicidal activity make quats uniquely useful in mineral processing and oil applications. There is an abundance of environmental data on quats, not because of oil field operations, but rather because of their use as fabric softeners in detergents. The best known fabric softener and antistatic agent is ditaUow dimethyl ammonium chloride (DTDMAC). Emulsifiers commonly have a N-alkyltrimethylammonium chloride or N-alkylimidazoline chloride configuration, and germicides, such as benzalkonium chloride, typically have a N-alkyldimethylbenzylammonium chloride structure. The fate and effects of these multifunctional surfactants are detailed in several reviews [9, 55, 60, 61]. 

Fig. 6 General structures of the most important surfactants and metabolites alkylphenol polyethoxylate (APE) alkylphenol (AP) alkyl ether (AE) alkylphenol ethoxy carboxylate (APEC) linear alkylbenzenesulfonates (LAS) alkyltrimethylammonium compounds (ATMAC) dialkyldimethylammonium compounds (DADMAC) alkyldimethylbenzylammonium compounds (ADMBAC) esterquat (EQ) diesterquats (DEQ). X is usually a chlorine or bromine atom. DDAC (didecyldimethylammonium chloride) and BDD12AC (benzyldimethyldode-cylammonium) are the two target analytes with a reported immunochemical technique developed for their analysis [153,154]...

Empirical Equations Many investigators have developed empirical equations relating the CMC to the various structural units in surface-active agents. Thus, for homologous straight-chain ionic surfactants (soaps, alkanesulfonates, alkyl sulfates, alkylammonium chlorides, alkyltrimethylammonium bromides) in aqueous medium, a relation between the CMC and the number of carbon atoms N in the hydrophobic chain was found (Klevens, 1953) in the form... 

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