scholarly journals Dendronized fluorosurfactant for highly stable water-in-fluorinated oil emulsions with minimal inter-droplet transfer of small molecules

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Suman Chowdhury ◽  
Wenshan Zheng ◽  
Shalini Kumari ◽  
John Heyman ◽  
Xingcai Zhang ◽  
...  

Abstract Fluorosurfactant-stabilized microfluidic droplets are widely used as pico- to nanoliter volume reactors in chemistry and biology. However, current surfactants cannot completely prevent inter-droplet transfer of small organic molecules encapsulated or produced inside the droplets. In addition, the microdroplets typically coalesce at temperatures higher than 80 °C. Therefore, the use of droplet-based platforms for ultrahigh-throughput combination drug screening and polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based rare mutation detection has been limited. Here, we provide insights into designing surfactants that form robust microdroplets with improved stability and resistance to inter-droplet transfer. We used a panel of dendritic oligo-glycerol-based surfactants to demonstrate that a high degree of inter- and intramolecular hydrogen bonding, as well as the dendritic architecture, contribute to high droplet stability in PCR thermal cycling and minimize inter-droplet transfer of the water-soluble fluorescent dye sodium fluorescein salt and the drug doxycycline.

Pharmaceutics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 427
Author(s):  
Kenji Sugibayashi ◽  
Yuya Yoshida ◽  
Ryuichiro Suzuki ◽  
Kota Yoshizawa ◽  
Kenji Mori ◽  
...  

A highly viscous substance was prepared by evaporating an ethanol solution containing two hydrophilic vitamins; vitamin C, and vitamin B6. The viscous substance and physical mixture of the two vitamins were tested using a differential scanning calorimeter and an X-ray diffractometer. The highly viscous substance was found to be a liquid crystal (LC) made of these two hydrophilic vitamins. Determination by proton nuclear magnetic resonance measurement suggested that intramolecular hydrogen bonding in vitamin B6 was eliminated by the LC formation. This LC compound showed high solubility in 1,3-butanediol (almost 87%). Much higher skin permeation of both vitamin C and B6 was also observed from the LC compound than that from the physical mixture. The present LC compound containing vitamin C and vitamin B6 may be useful for pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical applications.


10.1002/jcc.2 ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (16) ◽  
pp. 1804-1819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attila Kov�cs ◽  
Istv�n Kolossv�ry ◽  
G�bor I. Csonka ◽  
Istv�n Hargittai

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (14) ◽  
pp. 9443-9451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Xu ◽  
Hyuk-Yong Kwon ◽  
Daniel C. Ashley ◽  
Chun-Hsing Chen ◽  
Elena Jakubikova ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (24) ◽  
pp. 4483-4492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald K. Castellano ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Edwin A. Homan ◽  
Andrew J. Lampkins ◽  
Iris V. Marín ◽  
...  

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 3763
Author(s):  
Poul Erik Hansen

This review outlines methods to investigate the structure of natural products with emphasis on intramolecular hydrogen bonding, tautomerism and ionic structures using NMR techniques. The focus is on 1H chemical shifts, isotope effects on chemical shifts and diffusion ordered spectroscopy. In addition, density functional theory calculations are performed to support NMR results. The review demonstrates how hydrogen bonding may lead to specific structures and how chemical equilibria, as well as tautomeric equilibria and ionic structures, can be detected. All these features are important for biological activity and a prerequisite for correct docking experiments and future use as drugs.


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