Hydrophobicity effect on interactions between organic molecules in nanocages of surfactant micelle |
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Authors: | S L Yefimova G Ya Gural’chuk A V Sorokin Yu V Malyukin I A Borovoy A S Lubyanaya |
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Institution: | (1) Institute for Scintillation Materials, STC Institute for Single Crystals, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 60 Lenin Ave., Kharkov, 61001, Ukraine |
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Abstract: | Interactions between the cationic polymethine dyes 3,3′-diethyloxacarbocyanaine iodide (DiOC2), 3,3′-dioctadecyloxacarbocyanine iodide (DiOC18), and 1,1′-dioctadecyl-3,3,3′,3′-tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate (DiI) in the nano-scale volume of anionic sodium
dodecylsulfate (SDS) micelles have been studied using optical spectroscopy techniques. The solubilization of pairs of dye
molecules (DiOC18/DiI or DiOC2/DiI) within SDS micelles was monitored by Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between the dyes in each pair. The influence
of the hydrophobicity of the dyes DiOC2 and DiOC18 on the efficiency of their binding to SDS micelles and, consequently, on the efficiency of FRET between DiOC18 and DiI or DiOC2 and DiI fluorophors has been analyzed. It has been shown that hydrophobic interactions in addition to electrostatic interactions
are of key importance for the binding between the positively charged dyes and negatively charged surfactant micelles.
Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 75, No. 5, pp. 646–652, September–October, 2008. |
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Keywords: | fluorescence (Forster) resonance energy transfer surfactant micelles polymethine dyes hydrophobicity |
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