Several diesters were prepared from commercially available oleic acid and common organic acids. The key step in the three step synthesis of oleochemical diesters entails a ring opening esterification of alkyl 9,10epoxyoctadecanoates (alkyl: propyl, isopropyl, octyl, 2ethylhexyl) using propionic and octanoic acids without the need for either solvent or catalyst. Each synthetic diester was evalua...

A series of alkyl chain modified graphene oxides (AmGO) with different alkyl chain length and content was fabricated using a reducing reaction between graphene oxide (GO) and alkyl amine. Then AmGO was used as a graphene-based particle emulsifier to stabilize Pickering emulsion. Compared with the emulsion stabilized by GO, which was oil-in-water type, all the emulsions stabilized by AmGO were w...

A new method for the preparation of new heterocyclic amine surfactants based on sulfobetaines is proposed. Interfacial activities of the surfactants obtained in aqueous solution were studied by surface tension measurements. The critical micelle concentration, surface excess concentration, minimum area per surfactant molecule, and standard Gibbs energy of adsorption were determined. The adsorpti...

We describe the synthesis and antimalarial activities of 1H-1,2,3-triazole tethered 7-chloroquinoline-isatin hybrids. Activity against cultured parasites was dependent on the C-5 substituent of the isatin ring as well as the alkyl chain length between the isatin and 7-chloroquinoline moieties. Compound 8h, with an optimum alkyl chain length (n = 3) and a chloro substituent at the C-5 position o...

Well-defined alkyl chain side group polymer brushes have been tethered onto high surface area macroporous pulsed plasmachemical emulsion-templated poly(vinylbenzyl chloride) initiator layers (typically 600-700 m2 g(-1)) using atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP). Immobilisation of phospholipids onto these bioactive surfaces is found to occur through interdigitation, and the efficacy of l...

We have reductively alkylated deoxynojirimycin imino sugars using sodium cyanoborohydride to provide an efficient means of generating a series of N-alkylated compounds containing 4-18 carbon side chains. The yields were greater than 90% using a variety of aldehydes of different chain lengths, and after purification were >95% pure using (1)H-NMR. Radiolabelled compounds were prepared using sodiu...

The conformational order of three alkanesulfonates, sodium hexanesulfonate (HS), sodium undecanesulfonate (UDS), and sodium dodecanesulfonate (DDS), adsorbed at the D2O/CCl4 interface are examined in detail by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy. An increase in surfactant concentration at the interface results in the reduction of gauche defects in the hydrocarbon chains as determined from th...

We report the synthesis and characterisation of a family cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals with varying alkyl chain length carbosilane terminal group, demonstrate their use in ion doped SmA scattering devices.

We have studied the structure of a novel crystalline surface monolayer on top of a disordered melt of the same material [poly(n-alkyl acrylate)s] using grazing incidence x-ray diffraction. The grazing incidence x-ray diffraction, surface tension, and bulk latent heat results show that side chains crystallize except the nine methylene units of the alkyl side chains closest to the polymer backbon...