Within chemical compound surfactants, pentaethylene glycol monododecyl ether (C12E5) is a nonionic surfactant. It is formed by the ethoxylation chemical reaction of dodecanol (lauryl alcohol) to give a material with 5 repeat units of ethylene glycol.
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Preferred IUPAC name
3,6,9,12,15-Tetraoxaheptacosan-1-ol | |
Other names
Dodecylpentaglycol
Laureth-5 | |
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Abbreviations | C12E5 |
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ECHA InfoCard | 100.019.348 |
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CompTox Dashboard (EPA)
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Properties | |
C22H46O6 | |
Molar mass | 406.59704 |
Density | 0.963 g/mL at 20 °C |
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7×10−5 M at 25 °C.[2] | |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Multilamellar vesicle formation
editWithin the study of biological membranes and cell biology, for vesicle formation, the lamellar phase at 40wt% solution of C12E5 dissolved in D2O form multilamellar vesicles under shear rate.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Pentaethylene glycol monododecyl ether at Sigma-Aldrich
- ^ Kyoko Shinzawa-ltoh; Hidefumi Ueda; Shinya Yoshikawa; Hiroshi Aoyama; Eiki Yamashita & Tomitake Tsukihara (1995). "Effects of Ethyleneglycol Chain Length of Dodecyl Polyethyleneglycol Monoether on the Crystallization of Bovine Heart Cytochrome c Oxidase". J. Mol. Biol. 246 (5): 572–575. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80106-8. PMID 7877177.
- ^ Gentile, Luigi; Rossi, Cesare Oliviero; Olsson, Ulf; Ranieri, Giuseppe Antonio (2011). "Effect of Shear Rates on the MLV Formation and MLV Stability Region in the C12E5/D2O System: Rheology and Rheo-NMR and Rheo-SANS Experiments". Langmuir. 27 (6): 2088. doi:10.1021/la1046047. PMID 21261313.