Surfactants have unique physico-chemical properties as a result of their amphiphillic
molecular structure and are fundamental to life and living bodies.1 Most of
amphiphiles display very important phenomena such as surface activity, wetting
adsorption and micelle formation with the resultant functions like solubilization,
emulsification, dispersion, drug delivery, ion transport etc.2,3 Micelles are colloidal
particles with the size in the nanometre range, into which many amphiphillic
molecules self assemble spontaneously.4 They are versatile products and have found
application in emulsion polymerization,5,6 enhanced oil recovery,7 biomedical
materials,8 and biomemitism.9 Surfactant mixtures have become more interesting than
single surfactant solutions due to their wide technological applications and their
molecular interactions on complex supramolecular systems.10 The interactions
between water soluble polymers and surfactants are of considerable interest from an
industrial point of view as well as because they mimic protein membrane
interactions.11 The use of aqueous miceller media in kinetic studies is rapidly
increasing with the aim to replace the conventional organic solvent based syntheses
by micelle based syntheses, which not only provides a greater control over
stereoselectivity but is environment friendly as well.12,1
