Nonaqueous Polar Solvents in Reverse Micelle Systems.

CORREA N.M.; SILBER J.J.; RITER R. E.; LEVINGER N.E.

CHEMICAL REVIEWS.

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Lugar: Washington; Año: 2012 vol. 112 p. 4569 - 4602

0009-2665

Water?s ability to interact with itself and other molecules through a number of intermolecular interactions including hydrogen bonding leads to interesting and useful assemblies of molecules in a wide range of naturally occurring systems from the precise folding of proteins to the winding of DNA on a chromatin core to the organization of millions of lipids into sheets that delineate the inside and outside of a cell. In nature, water plays a key role for self-assembly; in the laboratory researchers seek motifs that arise in nonaqueous solutions to provide new media for chemistry. The self-assembly of amphiphiles in the absence of water forms the focus of this review. In particular, we discuss the assembly of amphiphiles into microemulsions and reverse micelles in nonpolar solvents while sequestering a polar nonaqueous core. through a number of intermolecular interactions including hydrogen bonding leads to interesting and useful assemblies of molecules in a wide range of naturally occurring systems from the precise folding of proteins to the winding of DNA on a chromatin core to the organization of millions of lipids into sheets that delineate the inside and outside of a cell. In nature, water plays a key role for self-assembly; in the laboratory researchers seek motifs that arise in nonaqueous solutions to provide new media for chemistry. The self-assembly of amphiphiles in the absence of water forms the focus of this review. In particular, we discuss the assembly of amphiphiles into microemulsions and reverse micelles in nonpolar solvents while sequestering a polar nonaqueous core. ?s ability to interact with itself and other molecules through a number of intermolecular interactions including hydrogen bonding leads to interesting and useful assemblies of molecules in a wide range of naturally occurring systems from the precise folding of proteins to the winding of DNA on a chromatin core to the organization of millions of lipids into sheets that delineate the inside and outside of a cell. In nature, water plays a key role for self-assembly; in the laboratory researchers seek motifs that arise in nonaqueous solutions to provide new media for chemistry. The self-assembly of amphiphiles in the absence of water forms the focus of this review. In particular, we discuss the assembly of amphiphiles into microemulsions and reverse micelles in nonpolar solvents while sequestering a polar nonaqueous core.