Synthesis and vesicle formation from novel pseudoglyceryl dimeric lipids. Evidence of formation of widely different membrane organizations with exceptional thermotropic properties

Abstract

Eight new bis-cationic dimeric lipids 2a–h have been synthesized; TEM of their aqueous dispersions confirmed the vesicle formation and from the thermal, spectroscopic, DLS and XRD studies it has been revealed that they form three different kinds of membranous aggregate depending on the m-value.

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