The reactivity and microscopic polarity studies in the sodium dodecyl sulfate based reversed micellar system

Chemical synthesis and crystallization of the dipeptide AcPheIleNH2 in TTAB/heptane/octanol reversed micelles

“…The ability to selectively solubilize polar and apolar compounds and the large contact area provided by the interface are two of the most interesting features of reversed micelles. Reversed micelles have been used as "nanoreactors" in numerous applications, ranging from enzymatic [1,2] and chemical catalysis [3][4][5], protein separation and refolding [6,7], synthesis of nanoparticles and quantum dots [8][9][10], drug delivery [11,12] and analytical methodologies [13,14]. * The synthesis of a peptide (amide) bond involves the condensation of an amine group of one amino acid and a carboxyl group of another.…”