Two alkyl glycosides with the same type of disaccharide headgroups (melibiose) and different methyl-branched alkyl chains, short chiral [(2 R, 4 R, 6 R, 8 R)-2, 4, 6, 8- tetramethyldecyl, extracted from an animal source] and long nonchiral (3, 7, 11, 15- tetramethylhexadecyl, from a plant source), were synthesized. The supramolecular aggregate structure formed in dilute solutions was investigated by small-angle neutron ...
