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Destruction of perfluoroalkyl surfactant aggregates by beta-cyclodextrin
Gaëlle M Nicolle1, André E Merbach
1Laboratory of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL-BCH, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 27, 2004
Abstract:
A water 1H NMRD and 19F NMR spectroscopy study has proved, for the first time, that perfluoroalkyl surfactant micelles can be completely destroyed upon addition of beta-cyclodextrin to form successively 1:1 and 2:1 (beta-CD:R(F)) inclusion complexes.