Molecular mechanism of physical gelation of hydrocarbons by fatty acid amides of natural amino acids

A Pal, YK Ghosh, S Bhattacharya

Index: Pal, Asish; Ghosh, Yamuna K.; Bhattacharya, Santanu Tetrahedron, 2007 , vol. 63, # 31 p. 7334 - 7348

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Abstract

A variety of fatty acid amides of different naturally occurring l-amino acids have been synthesized and they are found to form gels with various hydrocarbons. The gelation properties of these compounds were studied by a number of physical methods including FTIR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, rheology, and it was found that gelation depended critically on the fatty acid ...