Surface polarity of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) aqueous micelles was checked by use of as a probe the bromination reaction of a series of 1-alkenes and a water-soluble alkene, cis-4-cyclohexene-l, 2-dicarboxylic acid dimethyl ester (I). There was strong inhibition (1O6-1@-fold) of the second-order reaction rate constants relative to thw in water; moreover, both kinetica and the product distributions suggested that alkenes had different ...
