Micelles are usually highly disorganized. But how do surfactants with rigid linear hydrophobic chains behave? The linear spiro-surfactants 1 and 2, which were prepared in multistep syntheses, display very different relationships between surface tension and surfactant concentration. Spiro-phospholipids were also prepared and found to have exceptionally high transition temperatures.
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