title: Syntheses, amphitropic liquid crystallinity, and surface activity of new inositol-based amphiphiles.
abstract: Carbohydrates are interesting starting materials for scientific and industrial syntheses as they allow a versatile chemistry. Moreover, they are of natural origin and environmentally benign. During the past few years, inositol, a rather "exotic" carbohydrate, and its derivatives have gained increasing attention. Here, we describe the syntheses of new regiochemically defined inositol monoethers and monoesters as well as regioisomeric inositol ester mixtures and investigate their amphitropic liquid crystallinity. Furthermore, first results on their surface activity in aqueous solutions are given and compared with classical sugar surfactants.
authors.affiliation: Universitat zu Koln, Institut fur Organische Chemie, Greinstrasse 4, 50939 Koln, Germany. d.blunk@uni-koeln.de
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blunk
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bongartz
authors.forename: Cosima
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stubenrauch
authors.forename: Valeria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gärtner