Synfacts 2011(6): 0617-0617  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1260402
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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The Tale (Tail) of Hemifluorinated Surfactants

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Shuang Liu
M. Abla, G. Durand*, B. Pucci*
Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse and CNRS-Universités Montpellier I & II, France
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Publication History

Publication Date:
19 May 2011 (online)

Significance

A series of hemifluorinated surfactants with a perfluorohexane fragment and a propyl end group has been synthesized via AIBN-initiated radical addition reactions. Surfactants 5a and 5b self-assemble into monodisperse spherical micelles of 6.0 and 5.5 nm diameters.