First example of a lipophilic porphyrin-cardanol hybrid embedded in a cardanol-based micellar nanodispersion.
Cardanol is a natural and renewable organic raw material obtained as the major chemical component by vacuum distillation of cashew nut shell liquid. In this work a new sustainable procedure for producing cardanol-based micellar nanodispersions having an embedded lipophilic porphyrin itself peripherally functionalized with cardanol substituents (porphyrin-cardanol hybrid) has been described for the first time. In particular, cardanol acts as the solvent of the cardanol hybrid porphyrin and cholesterol as well as being the main component of the nanodispersions. In this way a "green" micellar nanodispersion, in which a high percentage of the micellar system is derived from renewable "functional" molecules, has been produced.
Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Via Arnesano, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
Ermelinda
E
Bloise
Luigi
L
Carbone
Giuseppe
G
Colafemmina
Lucia
L
D'Accolti
Selma Elaine
SE
Mazzetto
Giuseppe
G
Vasapollo
Giuseppe
G
Mele
D003102:Colloids / Q000737:chemistry; D008823:Micelles; D010636:Phenols / Q000737:chemistry*; D011166:Porphyrins / Q000737:chemistry*
D003102:Colloids; D008823:Micelles; D010636:Phenols; D011166:Porphyrins; C038590:cardanol