Polarity micellar

Incorporation of large amounts of functionalized monomer in the growing polymer creates a polar micellar environment that discourages migration of gaseous ethylene to the micelles. 

Riegelmann et al. [93] studied various aromatic compounds solubilized in aqueous solutions of potassium laurate, dodecylamine hydrochloride, and a polyoxyethylene ether of dodecanol (Brij 35). The ultraviolet spectra of ethylbenzene in these micellar solutions were very similar to those in non-polar solvents (see Fig. 5.10) and it was concluded that this solubilizate resided completely in the micellar core. Some regions of the spectra of solubilized naphthalene, anthracene and azobenzene, on the other hand, showed similarities with the spectra of these compounds in water, whilst other regions resembled the spectra in non-polar solvents. The suggestion was made that these compounds were solubilized in such a way as to be in partial contact with both the polar micellar surface and the non-polar micellar core, i.e. a position of deep penetration. By similar reasoning it was concluded that o-nitroaniline was located at a position of short penetration whereas dimethylphthalate, whose spectrum closely resembled the spectrum in water, was thought to be adsorbed on the micellar surface. 

The majority of practical micellar systems of Tionnal micelles use water as tire main solvent. Reverse micelles use water immiscible organic solvents, altlrough tire cores of reverse micelles are usually hydrated and may contain considerable quantities of water. Polar solvents such as glycerol, etlrylene glycol, fonnamide and hydrazine are now being used instead of water to support regular micelles [10]. Critical fluids such as critical carbon dioxide are... 

Luzzati V, Delacroix FI and Gulik A 1996 The micellar cubic phases of lipid-containing systems Analogies with foams, relations with the infinite periodic minimal surfaces, sharpness of the polar/apolar partition J. Physique. II 6 405-18... 

The binding behaviour of benzene can be extrapolated to many other aromatic compounds such as naphthalene and benzene derivativesInterestingly, a large number of probe molecules contain aromatic rings and many of them will prefer the outer regions of micelles, whereas in bilayer systems, the same molecules prefer the interior of the aggregate ". Qearly these probes cannot be used to determine polarity of the micellar interior or the extent of water penetration therein . 

Detergents are substances including soaps that cleanse by micellar action A large number of synthetic detergents are known One example is sodium lauryl sulfate Sodium lauryl sulfate has a long hydrocarbon chain terminating m a polar sulfate ion and forms soap like micelles m water... 

Hydrolysis of substrates is performed in water, buffered aqueous solutions or biphasic mixtures of water and an organic solvent. Hydrolases tolerate low levels of polar organic solvents such as DMSO, DMF, and acetone in aqueous media. These cosolvents help to dissolve hydrophobic substrates. Although most hydrolases require soluble substrates, lipases display weak activity on soluble compounds in aqueous solutions. Their activity markedly increases when the substrate reaches the critical micellar concentration where it forms a second phase. This interfacial activation at the lipid-water interface has been explained by the presence of a... 

The main peculiarity of solutions of reversed micelles is their ability to solubilize a wide class of ionic, polar, apolar, and amphiphilic substances. This is because in these systems a multiplicity of domains coexist apolar bulk solvent, the oriented alkyl chains of the surfactant, and the hydrophilic head group region of the reversed micelles. Ionic and polar substances are hosted in the micellar core, apolar substances are solubilized in the bulk apolar solvent, whereas amphiphilic substances are partitioned between the bulk apolar solvent and the domain comprising the alkyl chains and the surfactant polar heads, i.e., the so-called palisade layer [24],... 

Ionic, polar, apolar, and amphiphilic molecules can coexist in the same liquid system, frequently coming in contact as a consequence of the micellar dynamics and of the large interfacial area between different domains (a typical value of the interfacial area is about 100 m /cm ). 

The different location of polar and amphiphilic molecules within water-containing reversed micelles is depicted in Figure 6. Polar solutes, by increasing the micellar core matter of spherical micelles, induce an increase in the micellar radius, while amphiphilic molecules, being preferentially solubihzed in the water/surfactant interface and consequently increasing the interfacial surface, lead to a decrease in the miceUar radius [49,136,137], These effects can easily be embodied in Eqs. (3) and (4), aUowing a quantitative evaluation of the mean micellar radius and number density of reversed miceUes in the presence of polar and amphiphilic solubilizates. Moreover it must be pointed out that, as a function of the specific distribution law of the solubihzate molecules and on a time scale shorter than that of the material exchange process, the system appears polydisperse and composed of empty and differently occupied reversed miceUes [136],... 

FIG. 6 Representation of spherical water-containing reversed micelles solubilizing a polar molecule (p) in the micellar core (A) or an amphiphilic molecule (a) in the palisade layer (B). 

By flourescence techniques, it was observed that the fluorescence yield and lifetime of 1,8-anilinonaphthalenesulfonate decrease with an increase in the aqueous core of AOT-reversed micelles, while the position of the emission maximum shifts to longer wavelengths [64], These changes in the electronic properties were attributed to the peculiar effective polarity and viscosity of the micellar core and to their evolution with R. 

In the past few years, a range of solvation dynamics experiments have been demonstrated for reverse micellar systems. Reverse micelles form when a polar solvent is sequestered by surfactant molecules in a continuous nonpolar solvent. The interaction of the surfactant polar headgroups with the polar solvent can result in the formation of a well-defined solvent pool. Many different kinds of surfactants have been used to form reverse micelles. However, the structure and dynamics of reverse micelles created with Aerosol-OT (AOT) have been most frequently studied. AOT reverse micelles are monodisperse, spherical water droplets [32]. The micellar size is directly related to the water volume-to-surfactant surface area ratio defined as the molar ratio of water to AOT,... 

In the Hn phase and in the inverted micellar cubic phase, the water associated with the polar headgroups is trapped inside a ring structure and is not in rapid exchange with bulk water [18]. In a bicontinuous cubic phase, however, there is a continuous network of aqueous channels. 

Polar lipids form different kinds of aggregates in water, which in turn give rise to several phases, such as micellar and liquid crystalline phases. Among the latter, the lamellar phase (La) has received the far greatest attention from a pharmaceutical point of view. The lamellar phase is the origin of liposomes and helps in stabilizing oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions. The lamellar structure has also been utilized in creams. We have focused our interest on another type of liquid crystalline phase - the cubic phase... 

Figure 11.4 Schematic of a phospholipids unit (A) showing the polar head group that holds the charge in the electrospray (B) a phospholipids bilayer that is the possible origin of the signals at around 1400 mlz in the DIESMS spectra of bacteria (Figure 11.3) (C) the micellar arrangement that is stabilized in a polar solvent (D) the reverse micellar arrangement that is likely to be encountered in nonpolar environments.

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