Ozone-cleavable gemini surfactants, a new candidate for an environmentally friendly surfactant

Abstract

Three types of gemini surfactants bearing carbon–carbon double bond(s) showed excellent surface-active properties, and readily decomposed into non-surface-active fragments and/or single-chain surfactants with different surface-active properties upon exposure to ozone in water.

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