Micellisation of Surfactant

What is it about?

Interaction between biologically important metal complex and surface active agent.

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Why is it important?

Surfactants are among the most versatile chemicals available. They have applications in many areas, including detergent, food industries, pharmaceuticals, enhanced oil recovery, meteorological processes for concentrating ores, solubilisation of water insoluble dyes, hydrocarbons, analytical chemistry and a number of biological and environmental systems. Many metal ions are known to play very important roles in biological processes in the human body. They are found either at the active sites or as structural components of a good number of enzymes. Cobalt is known to be a central element of metabolically important biomolecule, such as vitamin B12 and therefore its biospecification in biological fluids constitutes a theme worthy of chemical and biological persual. A number of heterocyclic ligands such as 1,10-phenanthroline (Phen), 2,2'-bipyridine (bipy) and 1,10-phenanthroline-5, 6-dione (PD) are versatile molecule with applications in organic and biological chemistry. Transition metal complexes containing heterocyclic ligands have been of considerable interest in terms of structural chemistry, catalysis and biological functions. They are known to possess potential activities in the areas of biological, clinical, analytical, catalytic, microbial, insecticidal, antibiotic, growth factors, food additive, tumor inhibitor, cell division etc.