Single Crystals of Chiral Amphiphiles

Lehmann, J. Buschmann, P. Luger, C. Demoulin, J.-H. Fuhrhop, K. Eichborn, Acta 

Lipids with two identical fatty acids such as DMP very rarely appear in natural membranes. Natural lecithins are mixtures of compounds which usually contain saturated fatty acids with chain lengths from C12 to C20 at carbon atom 1 and saturated or unsaturated, cw-configured fatty acids at the chiral carbon atom 2. Such mixtures of lecithins never form liquid crystals in mem- 

Harlos, H. Eibl, I. Pascher, S. Sundell, Chem. Phys. Lipids, 1984, 34, 115 

Pascher, M. Lundmark, P.G. Nyholm, S. Sundell, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1984, 1113, 339 

Stereochemistry does not only determine solubilities, but also steers the arrangement of amphiphilic molecules within a crystal as well as their relative 

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