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Preparation and antimicrobial behaviour of gemini fluorosurfactants
Lionel Massi1, Frédéric Guittard, Richard Levy
1Chimie des matériaux organiques et métalliques (CMOM), Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, faculté des sciences, parc valrose, 28 avenue de valrose, 06108 Nice cedex 2, France.
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
|May 28, 2003
Abstract:
The introduction of perfluorinated chains in the molecular structure of quaternary ammonium gemini surfactants have led to particularly active antimicrobial agents evaluated in this work. Connectors and spacers were studied in relation with antimicrobial activity in order to determine which molecular parameters are "critical" for biological activity.