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A New Cationic Gemini Surfmer: Synthesis and Surface Activities

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A new cationic gemini surfmer (polymerizable surfactant or surface-active monomer) with an acrylic reactive group in its spacer group was synthesized and characterized, and its surface activity properties were examined in comparison with its intermediate surfactant 12-3OH-12·2Cl−, a previously-reported gemini surfmer 12′-2-12′·2Br−, as well as monomeric surfactant dodecyl trimethylammonium bromide. It was found that neither the incorporation of a double bond onto the gemini surfactant nor the change of location of the double bond will affect surface activities of the gemini surfactant.

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The financial supports from the Chinese Academy of Science, the open research fund program (200601) sponsored by Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Science and Technology (2008GZ2004), as well as partial support from Chengdu Base of the Graduate School of the Chinese of Sciences are greatly acknowledged.

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    Xin Su, Biqing Wang, Zhiyong Lu, Limin Wei & Yujun Feng

  2. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

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Su, X., Wang, B., Lu, Z. et al. A New Cationic Gemini Surfmer: Synthesis and Surface Activities. J Surfact Deterg 14, 73–76 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11743-010-1211-x

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