New Polymerizable Lipids

A series of new polymerizable amphiphiles reported recently are compiled in Table 3. 

Fendler 94) has enlarged the number of polymerizable amphiphiles with the synthesis of a variety of novel surfactants and also introduced the styrene moiety (57) as another useful polymerizable unit12). Small unilamellar vesicles from mixtures of DPPC with (8) maintained their morphology after polymerization for months, 

A diacetylene-containing chemically resistant phosphonic acid amphiphile (55) was introduced by B. Ostermeyer 97) who studied the spreading behavior of this compound at the gas/water-interface. 

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