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Published on: April 5, 2018
Fluorinated and hemifluorinated surfactants derived from maltose: synthesis and application to handling membrane
Ange Polidori1, Marc Presset, Florence Lebaupain
1Université d'Avignon et des Pays du Vaucluse, Laboratoire de Chimie Bioorganique et des Systèmes Moléculaires Vectoriels, 33 rue Louis Pasteur, F-84000 Avignon, France.
Abstract:
Two novel fluorinated surfactants have been obtained by grafting by radical reaction either a fluorocarbon or an ethyl end-capped fluorocarbon chain onto the double bond of beta-D-allyl maltose. The two compounds thus obtained form polydisperse aggregates in water. They can keep membrane proteins water-soluble, but the protein/surfactant complexes are polydisperse, which affects neither the native state nor the stability of the proteins.
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