title: Spectral properties of adrenaline in micellar environment.
abstract: An absorption and fluorescence spectral and temporal studies on the solubilzation properties of adrenaline in micellar environment in sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and in tetradodecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (TTABr) has been carried out. Observed Stokes shifts have been correlated with polarity parameters which allowed an estimate of the dielectric constant of the adrenaline environment in SDS and TTABr micelles at 44 and 58, respectively. Experiments with methanol-water mixtures indicate that the hydrogen bonding formation with solvent and the hydrophilic nature of adrenaline influence its solubilization in micelles. Fluorescence and anisotropy decay analysis has shown that neutral adrenaline in SDS micelle is partitioned between aqueous phase (70%) and less polar, micellar phase (30%) and the interactions are limited to the Guy-Chapman layer without deeper penetration into micellar hydrophobic core.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, August Cieszkowski Agricultural University, 60-637 Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Polewski
mesh_terms: D004837:Epinephrine / Q000737:chemistry*; D008823:Micelles; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012967:Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate / Q000737:chemistry; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D008823:Micelles; D012997:Solvents; D012967:Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate; D004837:Epinephrine