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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 112, Issue 34, Pages 10509-10513Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp802818a
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- National Basic Research Program of China [20633010, 2005cb221300]
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A proline surfactant including two chiral carbons, sodium N-dodecanoyl-(4R)-hydroxy-L-prolinate (SDHP), has been synthesized, and its micellization behavior in aqueous solution has been investigated by H-1 NMR spectroscopy. Two conformational isomers of SDHP, namely, Z and E, are discriminated in the NMR time scale, and critical micelle concentration is derived for each isomer separately. The transformation from E to Z is observed upon micellization, and the amount of Z isomer is approximately three times that of E isomer in the equilibrated system. Moreover, the variation in chemical shifts with the surfactant concentration reveals the shielding effect of the carboxyl group on the syn-side protons of the pyrrolidine ring, which implies that the pyrrolidine rings arrange in a side-to-side manner and lie parallel to the plane of the carboxyl bonds in the neighboring molecules. The difference in the directions of the carbonyl group between Z and E isomers essentially determines their different micellization abilities and molecular arrangements in the micellization process.
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