Structure and Reactivity in Microaggregates

这个项目是由加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的克利福德·邦顿进行的，属于有机动力学项目，旨在研究聚集体表面的反应。当表面活性剂有机分子被放入水中时，它们形成被称为胶束的聚集体。这项研究将调查这些胶束对其表面发生的有机反应的影响；这也将提供关于胶束结构的信息。这项研究将包括研究合成表面活性剂胶体自组装中的化学反应性，并主要通过光散射和核磁共振光谱来检查这些组装的结构。这项工作的目的将是了解控制亚微观界面化学反应的因素，特别是在水中。这些界面上离子结合的理论模型将得到检验。

This project by Clifford Bunton of the University of California at Santa Barbara, is within the Organic Dynamics Program, and is aimed at studying reactions at the surfaces of aggregates. When surfactant organic molecules are placed in water, they form aggregates known as micelles. This research will investigate the effect of these micelles on organic reactions which occur at their surfaces; this will also provide information about micellar structure. This research will involve a study of chemical reactvity in colloidal self-assemblies of synthetic surfactants and the examination of the structures of these assemblies, largely by light scattering and NMR spectroscopy. The aim of the work will be the understanding of the factors that control chemical reactivity at submicroscopic interfaces, especially in water. Theoretical models of ion-binding at these interfaces will be tested.