A new cationic polymerizable surfactant bearing a vinylamide moiety

Abstract

A convenient synthesis of cationic-polymerizable surfactants ("surfmers") bearing the vinylamide moiety has been developed, which provides versatile and variable access to new surfmers with hydrophilic, hydrolytically stable polymerizable groups. Copolymerization with vinylpyrrolidone produces poly-soaps with the so-called mid-tail geometry