Cationic mixed micelles in the presence of β-cyclodextrin:: A host-guest study

The conductances of trimethyltetradecylammonium bromide (TTAB)+ triphenyltetradecylphosphonium bromide (TTPB) and TTAB + trimethylhexadecylammonium bromide (HTAB) over the entire mole fraction range of TTAB (alpha(TTAB)) were measured in water and in beta-cyclodextrin + water (CD + W) mixtures at fixed 4 and 8 mM of CD at 30 degrees C. The conductivity plots for both binary mixtures show a single break from which the mixed critical micelle concentration (cmc) and degree of micelle ionization (chi) were computed. From the slopes of the conductivity curves, the equivalent ionic conductivities of the monomeric (Lambda(m)), associated (Lambda(ass)), and the micelle (Lambda(mic)) states were calculated and discussed with respect to the surfactant-CD complexation in the whole mole fraction range of both surfactant binary mixtures. The association constant (K) between the respective monomeric surfactant and CD cavity of fixed 4 mM CD was computed by considering 1:1 association from the surface tension measurements. A comparison among the K values for HTAB-CD, TTAB-CD, and TTPB-CD shows that the former complexation is significantly stronger in comparison to the other ones due to the longer hydrophobic tail. The nonideality in mixed micelle formation in pure water was evaluated by using the regular solution theory, and it was observed that both binary mixtures exhibit close to ideal behavior. (C) 2000 Academic Press.