title: Derivatives of glutamic acid as new surfactants.
abstract: Starting from glutamic acid, different types of surfactants have been synthesised by using original trimodular strategies. Monosubstituted zwitterionic amides of glutamic acid obtained with excellent yields show good surface activity. The grafting of a second hydrophobic side-chain leads to bicatenar cationic surfactants or to disubstituted nonionic cyclic compounds. In order to reduce the hydrophobic character of the bicatenar surfactants, a second synthetic method has been developed, allowing the introduction of a polar sugar group into these molecules. The surfactant properties of several of the products have been determined by physico-chemical methods such as surface tension measurements and compression isotherm studies by means of a Langmuir balance.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Organique et Colloïdale UMR 7565, Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy I, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rodehüser
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chaumette
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meyers
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rogalska
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gérardin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Selve
mesh_terms: D000438:Alcohols / Q000737:chemistry; D000588:Amines / Q000737:chemistry; D018698:Glutamic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008956:Models, Chemical; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D013501:Surface-Active Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis*
chemical_list: D000438:Alcohols; D000588:Amines; D013501:Surface-Active Agents; D018698:Glutamic Acid