Cationics and amphoterics

Water-soluble polymers such as nonionic, anionic, cationic, and amphoteric are described as shown in Fig. 1. 

T. Siyam, "Studies on Gamma Radiation-Induced Preparation of Cationic and Amphoteric Copolymers. Ph.D. Thesis, Fac. Sci. Cairo Univ., Cairo, Egypt... 

A surfactant can be grouped in one of the four classes - anionic, nonionic, cationic and amphoteric surfactants, depending on what charge is present in the chain-carrying hydrophilic portion of the molecule after dissociation in aqueous solution. Tab. 4.1 shows examples of surfactants most commonly used for detergents. 

Commercial mixtures of surfactants comprise several tens to hundreds of homologues, oligomers and isomers of anionic, nonionic, cationic and amphoteric compounds. Therefore, their identification and quantification in the environment is complicated and cumbersome. The requirement of more specific analytical methods has prompted a replacement of many of the separate steps in traditional methods of analysis, usually non-chromatographic, by chromatographic tools. 

The two distinctive affinities in the surfactant molecule mentioned above serve as the basis for the commonly accepted definition of surfactant groups. According to the charge of their hydrophilic moiety, surfactants can be classified into four categories anionic, non-ionic, cationic and amphoteric. 

A broad range of silicone surfactants are commercially available, representing all of the structural classes—anionic, non-ionic, cationic, and amphoteric. The silicone moiety is lyophobic, i.e. lacking an affinity for a medium, and surfactant properties are achieved by substitution of lyophilic groups to this backbone. The most common functionalities used are polyethylene glycols however, a broad range exist, as shown in Table 2.8.1 [2,3]. 

Numerous laboratory sorption studies have been conducted for the most common surfactants non-ionics, such as AE and alkylphenol ethox-ylates (APEOs) anionics such as LAS, secondary alkane sulfonates (SASs) and sodium dodecylsulfates (SDS) and on different natural sorbents [3,8,15-17], Until now, cationic and amphoteric surfactants have received less study than the other types, probably because they represent only 5 and 2%, respectively, of the total surfactant consumption in Western Europe (1998) [18]. 

Takano S, Tsuji K (1983) Analysis of cationic and amphoteric surfactants. III. Structural analysis of imidazolinium cationic surfactants. J Am Oil Chem Soc 60 870... 

Y Tanaka, S Terabe. Enantiomer separation of acidic racemates by capillary electrophoresis using cationic and amphoteric f -cyclodextrins as chiral selectors. J Chromatogr A 781 151-160, 1997. 

A previous exploratory study attempted to recover the soluble, poorly volatile subclass of organic compounds in water (3). It used a set.of sequential adsorbents. Silica gel, the first adsorbent, filtered out particulate matter and adsorbed some hydrophobic compounds. The next adsorbent was a cation-exchange bed that recovered cations and amphoteric substances, and the last adsorbent was an anion-exchange bed. The effluent from this series of adsorbents contained the neutral compounds. The eluates from each bed and the effluents were then concentrated under vacuum. This system, the parfait method, was demonstrated to recover parts-per-billion concentrations of several known mutagens in amounts sufficient to be detected by bioassay. 

Ionic Surfmers. Ionic Surfmers were extensively considered in the early developments of polymerizable surfactants. Examples of products with anionic, cationic and amphoteric moieties are given in Figures 6.40-6.48. 

Cationic and amphoteric Surfmers were synthesized from the hemi ester or hemi amide with a C12-C20 alkyl chain and diethyl (chloroethyl) amine followed by quaternization with conventional agents or by reaction with propanesultone [23]. 

Surfactants are generally classified by ionic types which relate to their chemical structure and are described as anionic, non-ionic, cationic and amphoteric. Following descriptions of the theory behind surfactants, each category is considered with a brief summary of methods of manufacture but with the main emphasis on properties and applications. 

Low charge density, hydrophobically modified polybetaines were shown to interact and comicellize with nonionic, anionic, cationic, and amphoteric surfactants [181-183] and many ionic organic dyes [264,265]. The association mechanism of hydrophobically modified polymers and surfactants in dependence on the concentration of interacting components can be modeled by two pathways (Scheme 21) [183]. 

The asymmetrical tertiary amines are used exclusively as starting materials for the manufacture of quaternary ammonium compounds, cationic and amphoteric surfactants, and amine oxides. Quaternary ammonium compounds used as bactericides and algicides are produced by the reaction of tertiary amines with benzyl chloride, methyl chloride, or dimethyl sulfate. Of these, the benzyl ammonium chloride salt is the most widely used. 

Petrochemical surfactants are mainly derived from ethylene, propylene, butylenes, benzene, and also naphthalene as building blocks [46]. The most important emulsifiers for emulsion polymerization are anionic and non-ionic surfactants. Cationic and amphoteric surfactants are only used in special cases and are of minor importance as emulsifiers for polymerization. 

Fig. 4 Schematic representation of the interaction of a representative drug substance with cyclodextrin. A wide range of noncharged and charged (anionic, cationic, and amphoteric) cyclodextrins have been used as chiral selectors, as well as for the optimized separation of nonchiral compounds using capillary electrophoresis. Cationic and amphoteric cyclodextrins are less commonly used in chiral analysis, and only a few are commercially available. The degree of substitution of a cyclodextrin may vary from one manufacturer to another or even from batch to batch, which may have a detrimental effect on the reproducibility and ruggedness of the separation system. (Modified from Ref. 169.)...

Depending on the nature of the hydrophilic groups of surfactants, they can be divided into anionic, nonionic, cationic, and amphoteric surfactants. The last-mentioned class only plays a minor role with respect to domestic and industrial applications and practically no methods for the environmental analysis of amphoteric surfactants have been published so far. 

Surface active substances or surfactants are amphiphilic compounds having a lyophilic, in particular hydrophilic, part (polar group) and a lyophobic, in particular hydrophobic, part (often hydrocarbon chain). The amphiphilic structure of surfactants is responsible for their tendency to concentrate at interfaces and to aggregate in solutions into various supramolecular structures, such as micelles and bilayers. According to the nature of the polar group, surfactants can be classified into nonionics and ionic, which may be of anionic, cationic, and amphoteric or zwitterionic nature. 

Fig. 9.13 Retention of cationic and amphoteric starches in handsheets (addition level of starch derivatives is 2% on dry weight of pulp) [15]...

Fig. 9.14 Effect of increased conductivity on cationic and amphoteric starch...

Size press starch may be non-ionic, from in-mill enzymatic conversion or thermo-chemical conversion of native starch. It may be anionie if an oxidised starch is used. (Note this refers to chemically modified oxidised starch. Many American texts wrongly refer to any viscosity-reduced starch - including enzyme-converted and thermo-chetnically converted stareh - as oxidised stareh. Such processes do not form any carboxyl or carbonyl groups on the starch.) Furthermore, cationic and amphoteric starches are frequently tpplied on multi-purpose office paper for improved ink-jet printability. 

J. Yoshizawa, A. Isogai and F. Onabe(1998), Cationic and amphoteric starches on hand-sheets, Journal of Pulp and Paper Science, 24(7), July. 

Some reviews were published dealing with this type of interface and its application in environmental analysis [24, 42, 123). Qualitative and quantitative analysis of polar pollutants by FAB or CF-FAB was performed with extracts of aqueous matrices, such as wastewater, surface water, seawater, raw and drinking water [124-129], for all types of surfactants (non-ionics, anionics, cationics and amphoterics) in urban wastewaters, receiving waters (rivers and costal receiving areas), and groundwater [124-148], for metabolites of surfactants [130, 149-153], and bromi-nated surfactants [137, 154). 

Wetting, dispersing, stabilising Numerous anionic, non-ionic, cationic and amphoteric surfactants/dispersants... 

The majority of surfactants used in coatings formulations are standard anionic and nonionic amphiphiles, such as fatty alcohol sulfates, alkylaryl sulfonates and alcohol ethoxylates. Cationic and amphoteric surfactants... 

Smith, R. W., Cationic and amphoteric collectors, in Reagents in Mineral Technology, Somasundaran, P. and Moudgil, B. M. (Eds), Surfactant Science Series, Vol. 27, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1988, pp. 219-256. 

With regard to bioconcentration, it is important that surfactants are characterized by combining a lipophilic and a hydrophilic moiety in the same molecule. This is true for all four classes, namely anionic, nonionic, cationic and amphoteric surfactants. Although these classes possess quite different hydrophilic groups, the lipophilic part usually consists of an alkyl chain or alkyl chains of different lengths. There is some evidence that the lipophilic groups of surfactants are metabolized after uptake by aquatic invertebrate species (Daphnia and Chironomus) and fish. 

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