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Tunable Oleo-Furan Surfactants by Acylation of Renewable Furans.

ABSTRACT: An important advance in fluid surface control was the amphiphilic surfactant composed of coupled molecular structures (i.e., hydrophilic and hydrophobic) to reduce surface tension between two distinct fluid phases. However, implementation of simple surfactants has been hindered by the broad range of applications in water containing alkaline earth metals (i.e., hard water), which disrupt surfactant function and require extensive use of undesirable and expensive chelating additives. Here we show that sugar-derived furans can be linked with triglyceride-derived fatty acid chains via Friedel-Crafts acylation within single layer (SPP) zeolite catalysts. These alkylfuran surfactants independently suppress the effects of hard water while simultaneously permitting broad tunability of size, structure, and function, which can be optimized for superior capability for forming micelles and solubilizing in water.

SUBMITTER: Park DS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5126714 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Tunable Oleo-Furan Surfactants by Acylation of Renewable Furans.

Park Dae Sung DS Joseph Kristeen E KE Koehle Maura M Krumm Christoph C Ren Limin L Damen Jonathan N JN Shete Meera H MH Lee Han Seung HS Zuo Xiaobing X Lee Byeongdu B Fan Wei W Vlachos Dionisios G DG Lobo Raul F RF Tsapatsis Michael M Dauenhauer Paul J PJ

ACS central science 20161019 11

An important advance in fluid surface control was the amphiphilic surfactant composed of coupled molecular structures (i.e., hydrophilic and hydrophobic) to reduce surface tension between two distinct fluid phases. However, implementation of simple surfactants has been hindered by the broad range of applications in water containing alkaline earth metals (i.e., hard water), which disrupt surfactant function and require extensive use of undesirable and expensive chelating additives. Here we show t ...[more]

PMID: 27924310

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Tunable Oleo-Furan Surfactants by Acylation of Renewable Furans.

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