Physico-chemical properties of a novel surfactant derived from 6-aminopenicillanic acid and its use in capillary electrophoresis for chiral discrimination

Abstract

A novel surfactant based on 6-aminopenicillanic acid is synthesised in good yield, and its physico-chemical properties, such as the critical micellar concentration and the mean aggregation number are determined using fluorescence and capillary electrophoretic methods; the utility of these surfactants for chiral discrimination in micellar electrokinetic capillary electrophoresis is demonstrated.