title: Surfactant lipids containing aromatic units produce vesicular membranes with high thermal stability.
abstract: Six new vesicle-forming, cationic surfactant lipids are synthesized. Four of them contain 'flat' aromatic units at different locations of hydrophobic segments. In order to estimate the influence of aromatic units in the lipid monomer two other surfactant lipids of related structure with n-butyloxy units in the places of aromatic groups were also prepared. Transmission electron microscopy confirmed the vesicular membrane formation from these newly synthesized lipids. DSC or temperature-dependent keto-enol tautomerism of benzoylacetanilide-doped vesicles reveal a remarkable increase in the thermal stability of the membranes formed from aromatic surfactant lipids in contradistinction to their counterparts that contain n-butyloxy units. The enhanced thermal stability originates presumably as a consequence of inter-monomer stacking.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Subramanian
authors.forename: U S
authors.initials: US
authors.lastname: Hiremath
mesh_terms: D002152:Calorimetry, Differential Scanning; D002412:Cations / Q000737:chemistry; D008055:Lipids / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D008081:Liposomes / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D015394:Molecular Structure; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013501:Surface-Active Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D002412:Cations; D008055:Lipids; D008081:Liposomes; D013501:Surface-Active Agents