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Journal of Oleo Science ISSN 1345-8957 print / ISSN 1347-3352 online
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Sudhir Kumar SINGH, M. BAJPAI and V.K. TYAGI
(IV)
where K is overall rate constant and
K = k
1
k
3
/ (k
2
+ k
3
)
So, from equation (IV) it is evident that overall order
of reaction for amine oxide formation is 2, and is in
complete agreement with the experiment.
It has been observed that the degree of conversion of
tertiary amines to its amine oxides is dependent on the
purity of the tertiary amines. With commercially avail-
able undistilled tertiary amine yields in the range of
85% to 87% are obtained. But with freshly redistilled
tertiary amine and with 10% molar excess hydrogen
peroxide the yield may go upto 99% (1).
During the synthesis of amine oxides information on
the amount of unreacted tertiary amine present is need-
ed in order to follow the reaction. A number of analyti-
cal procedure including chromatographic procedures
have been devised to obtain this information. But all of
these procedures have some limitations. Wang and Met-
calfe (6) developed a simple, rapid, non aqueous titra-
tion procedure that makes use of the anamalous salt
behaviour of amine oxides. A modified solvent and
titrant is used to obtain two potential breaks in the titra-
tion. The first break corresponds to half of the amine
oxide. The second break represents the second half of
the amine oxide plus any unreacted amine. With this
information the amine oxide and unreacted amines can
be calculated.
3 Synthesis of Amine Oxides
31 Synthesis of Dimethylalkyl Amine
Oxides and Cyclic Amine Oxides
Friedli et al. (3) prepared dimethyllauryl amine oxide,
N-laurylmorpholine oxide, N-laurylpiperidine oxide
and N-lauryl-3- methyl piperidine oxide with their
respective amines by reacting with 51% aqueous hydro-
gen peroxide at 75. Their rates of formation indicates
that the reaction is of second order and two piperidine
versions form slower than dimethyl-lauryl amine oxide,
while lauryl morpholine reacts much faster.
32 Synthesis of 2-alkoxy-N, N-
dimethylethyl Amine N-oxides
Hayashi et al. (7) prepared 2-lauryloxy-N,N-
dimethylethyl amine N-oxide with its amine by react-
ing with 30% aq hydrogen peroxide at room tempera-
ture. The amine oxide was concentrated in a drying box
under reduced pressure resulted into a crystalline solid
amine oxide. Such amine oxides are stable up to 100,
but decomposes rapidly to vinyl ethers at 150. At low
temperature they deoxygenated to their tertiary amine.
Hygroscopic property decreases as length of the alkyl
chain increases.
33 Synthesis of Alkyl Benzene Derived
Amine Oxides
Marmer and Linfield (8) prepared aromatic amine
oxides via a three step route from a variety of pure 1-
phenylalkanes and also from a commercial detergent
alkylate mixture. The process includes (i) sulfonation of
R NO
K R N H O
3 3 2 2
=
[ ][ ]
R NO
k k R N H O
k k
3
1 3 3 2 2
2 3
=
[ ][ ]
+
R N H O 3 2 2
0
.. ( )
=
R N H O
k R N H O k R N H O
k R N H O
3 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 3 2 2
3 3 2 2
.
.
.
( )
=
[ ][ ]
[ ]
[ ]
R NO
k R N H O
3 3 3 2 2 ( )
=
[ ]
.
R N H O R N H O R NO H O
3 2 2 3 2 2 3 2
+ ( )
+ .
k
1
k
3
k
2 rxn.intermediate
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Amine Oxides: A Review
the phenylalkane with chlorosulfonic acid in 1,2-
dichloroethane. (ii) reaction of resulting alkarylsulfonyl
chloride with H
2
N(CH
2
)
3
NMe
2
(Me is for -CH
3
group)
or H
2
N(CH
2
)
3
N(CH
2
CH
2
OH)
2
under anhydrous condi-
tions at room temperature, and (iii) oxidation of result-
ing tertiary amines with 30% aqueous hydrogen perox-
ide at 65. Such aromatic amine oxides were found to
be thermally stable below 125.
34 Synthesis of N, N-dimethylalkyl Amine
N-oxide by Micellar-Autocatalysis
Rathman and Kust (9) investigated the synthesis of
N,N-dimethyldodecyl amine N-oxide in aqueous solu-
tions by micellar autocatalysis. The lipophilic reactant,
dimethyl dodecylamine was initially solubilized in
micellar solutions of the amine oxide surfactant, result-
ing in substantially higher reaction rates. Amine con-
versions of 90-100% were obtained within 2 h at 70.
The effects of reactant concentrations, temperature, and
initial surfactant concentration were studied. This
method is important because of two main reasons: (I)
Micellar auto catalysis provides a method for synthesiz-
ing surfactants without employing volatile organic sol-
vents in the reaction medium, providing potential eco-
nomic and environmental benefits and (II) studies of
micellar auto catalysis can refine and extend the under-
standing of the other types of reactions in aqueous sur-
factant solutions.
4 Analysis of Amine Oxides
Pinazo and Domingo (10) investigated turbidimetric
analysis of amine oxides and amine oxide - anionic sur-
factant mixtures. This automatic analysis has been
shown to be a simple and accurate method to determine
the actives in anionic surfactants as well as the actives
in amine oxides. This technique has been applied to
dilute solutions of these surfactants in the mM range.
Turney and Cannell (11) determined a method known
as alkaline methylene blue method for determination of
anionic surfactants, also this method in conjunction
with the acid methylene blue titration may be used to
determine the amount of amine oxides in formulated
products like detergents etc, based on the cationic
nature of amine oxides at low pH and nonionic nature at
high pH. For concentrations of less than 100 PPM a
spectrophotometric method was used.
5 Physico-Chemical Studies on
Amine Oxides
It is well known that the dissociation constant K of
weak electrolytes at the charged interface are different
from those in their solutions. Funasaki (12) were meas-
ured the dissociation constant K of acid -base indicators
in aqueous solutions of 20 mM dodecyldimethyl amine
oxide (DDAO), 1% Brij 35 (C
12
H
25
-(O-CH
2
-CH
2
-)
23
-
OH), and 20 mM cetyltrimethylammonium bromide
(CTAB) spectroscopically and also determined the
applicability of the equation p
K
= p
Ki
(0.4343 e
0
y
0
/kT),
to the micelle-solubilizate systems. The surface poten-
tial Y
0
of mixed micelles of sodium dodecyl decaoxy
ethylene sulfate and dodecyldimethylamine oxide in the
presence of 0.1 M sodium chloride at 25 have found
by Tokiwa and Ohki is somewhat unreasonable.
Funasaki (13) evaluated more reasonably the surface
potential of these mixed micelles.
It has been known that micelle of ionic surfactants
grows with increasing concentration of added salt. The
electric repulsion between charged headgroups is a
main size - limiting factor in micelle formulation, and
the effect of added salt on the micele size has been
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Fig. 1 Molecular Structures of Respective Amine Oxides
of Section 3.
S.K. Singh, M. Bajpai and V.K. Tyagi
attributed to the electrostatic shielding effect of counter-
ions on the charged micelle. Ikeda et al. (14) studied
the effects of ionization on micelle size of aqueous
NaCl solution of dimethyldodecyl amine oxide, by
using the light-scattering method for the determination
of molecular weight, from the Debye plot.
Imae and Ikeda (15) measured angular dependence of
light-scattering from micellar solutions of dimethyl-
oleyl amine oxide in water and 10
-4
M NaCl at different
micelle concentrations from the critical micelle concen-
tration (CMC) to 0.15 10
-2
g cm
-3
. The intensity of
light scattered from the micellar solutions increases
with an increase in scattering angle, in contrast to the
usual behaviour. This is caused by the effect of external
interference which is stronger than that of internal inter-
ference.
Dimethyldodecyl amine oxide and dimethyltetrade-
cyl amine oxide are known to form spherical micelles
in water and 0.20 M NaCl solutions; but, if the hydro-
carbon part of nonionics with amine oxide head group
is made longer for e.g. dimethyloleyl amine oxide,
forms rod like micelles in dilute aqueous solutions
determined from light-scattering measurements. Ritsu
Kamiya et al. (16) presented electron micrographs of
rod like micelles regenerated from aqueous solutions of
dimethyloleyl amine oxide and gave support for the
results from the light scattering measurements.
Imae and Ikeda (17) investigated the pH dependence
of upper and lower consolute phase boundaries for
aqueous NaCl solutions of dimethyloleyl amine oxide
at temperatures between 5 and 85 for pH less than 8
at different NaCl concentrations. The consolute phase
boundary is also given as a function of surfactant con-
centration. Toyoko Imae et al. in their another investi-
gation (18) found that aqueous solutions of dimethyl-
alkyl amine oxides (CnDAO, n = 16,18) present the iri-
descence at surface concentrations of 0.3 - 2 wt%, when
the temperature of the solutions is lower than 23 for
C
16
DAO and 46 for C
18
DAO. The Colour changes
from yellowish red to blue with an increase in surfac-
tant concentration, and disappears at pH below Ca.
6.5 for C
16
DAO and below Ca. 4.5 for C
18
DAO (see
Figs. 2 & 3).
Polymer-micelle complexes have found applications
in many industrial products, such as paints and coat-
ings, laundry detergent, and cosmetic products and they
also play a role in tertiary oil recovery. Brackman and
Engberts (19) studied the influence of the nonionic
water soluble polymers poly (vinyl methyl ether)
(PVME), poly (propylene oxide) (PPO), and poly (ethy-
lene oxide) (PEO) on the aggregation behaviour of n-
dodecyldimethyl amine oxide (DDAO), at various
stages of protonation.
Hoffman et al. (20) reported the phase diagram of the
ternary surfactant system tetradecyldimethyl amine
oxide / heptanol / water for small surfactant concentra-
tions. With increasing cosurfactant / surfactant ratio, the
generally observed sequence of the phases L
1
, L
a
and
L
3
is found. These single phases are separated by nar-
row two phase regions. In all these phases the L
3
or so-
called sponge phase has drawn much attention. It is a
low viscous, slightly turbid, and optically isotropic
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Fig. 2 The Phase Diagram under the Visual Inspection for
Aqueous Solutions of C
16
DAO. I, Transparent and
Isotropic Solution; II, Turbid Solution; III,
Iridescent Solution.
Reprinted from J. Colloid Interface Sci., Vol. 131, 601-602,
Copyright with permission from Elsevier.
Fig. 3 The Phase Diagram under the Visual Inspection and
the Crossed Nicol for Aqueous Solutions of
C
18
DAO., visual inspection;
-
-
,
crossed nicol. I, transparent and isotropic solution;
II, turbid solution; III, iridescent solution; IV,
weakly birefringent solution; V, strongly
birefringent solution.
Reprinted from J. Colloid Interface Sci., Vol. 131, 601-602,
Copyright with permission from Elsevier.
Amine Oxides: A Review
phase which shows flow birefringence under shear.
The interactions between water and nonionic surfac-
tants are important in both fundamental and applied
surface chemistry. Mol et al. (21) determined the struc-
tural parameters of the hexagonal and lamellar phase of
the dimethyldodecyl amine oxide (DDAO)- water sys-
tems using X-ray diffraction. The result obtained are
discussed in the light of the on going debates about (i).
The relative importance of steric / protrusion forces and
hydration forces between surfactant bilayers and (ii) the
molecular origin of the temperature dependence of the
interactions displayed in several nonionic water sys-
tems.
The electrostatic potential is one of the important
factors for the stabilization of dispersed colloidal parti-
cles in aqueous medium. The electrokinetic phe-
nomenon such as electrophoresis, which may be evalu-
ated by mobility, is in close connection with electrostat-
ic potential. Imae and Hayashi (22) performed elec-
trophoretic light scattering measurements for aqueous
NaCl solutions of dodecyl-, tetradecyl-, and
oleyldimethyl amine oxides (C
12
DAO, C
14
DAO &
ODAO). It was observed that Electrophoretic mobility
changed with the degree of protonation (see Figs. 4 to
7).
It is very interesting to investigate the behaviour of
surfactant mixtures, which have different head groups
with synergistic interactions but also different chains
with antagonistic interactions. Hoffman and Possnecker
(23) investigated the mixing behaviour of surfactants by
using the phase separation model. In their investigation
they used pairs of nonionic hydrocarbon surfactants and
perfluorinated anionic surfactants; in one example they
took the tetradecyldimethyl amine oxide as nonionic
surfactant with the mentioned anionic surfactants. With
this anionic surfactant it was possible to reach nearly
identical CMC values of the nonionic and the anionic
surfactant. To create special starting conditions, they
used a hydrophobic tetraethyl ammonium counterion of
the anionic surfactant (see Figs. 8 & 9).
Desnoyers et al. (24) studied the thermodynamic
micellar properties of n-octyldimethyl amine oxide
hydrochloride (OAO.HCl) in water. The apparent molar
volumes and heat capacities of OAO. HCl were meas-
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Fig. 4 Electrophoretic Light Scattering Power Spectra for
0.1 M NaCl Solutions of C
14
DAO at Surfactant
Concentration of 0.510
-2
g cm
-3
with Various
Degrees of Protonation.
Reprinted from Langmuir, Vol. I, 3385-3388, Copyright with
permission from Am. Chem. Soc.
Fig. 5 Electrophoretic Mobility as a Function of Degree of
Protonation for 0.1 M NaCl Solutions of C
14
DAO at
Surfactant Concentration of 0.510
-2
g cm
-3
.
Reprinted from Langmuir, Vol. I, 3385-3388, Copyright with
permission from Am. Chem. Soc.
Fig. 6 Electrophoretic Mobility as a Function of Degree of
Protonation for 0.03 M NaCl Solutions of ODAO at
Surfactant Concentration of 0.110
-2
g cm
-3
.
Reprinted from Langmuir, Vol. I, 3385-3388, Copyright with
permission from Am. Chem. Soc.
S.K. Singh, M. Bajpai and V.K. Tyagi
ured in water as a function of concentration between 2
and 55 and the apparent molar relative enthalpies of
the same system at 25. Also, the apparent molar
expansibilities were calculated from the temperature
dependence of the volumes (see Figs. 10 to 14).
Okamura et al. (25) investigated supramolecular
assemblies in ternary systems of alkyldimethyl amine
oxide (C
n
DAO, n=12, 16)/Cinnamic acid/ water by
small angle neutron scattering(SANS). The fine struc-
tures of molecular assemblies were quantitatively
examined for solutions with different mixing ratios.
Since SANS is operated at the neutron radiation of 1-
16 wavelength, it results in distances of nanometer
scale such as the shape of small micelles, the crossec-
tion of rod like micelles, and the lamellar thickness and
distance. Such data have never been obtained from
TEM and light scattering experiment. The molecular
arrangement in supramolecular assemblies is discussed
in relation to the structure geometry (see Figs. 15 to
20).
The influence of thermodynamic parameters on the
mechanism of self-organization of surfactants in aque-
ous solutions are of deep interest giving a deep insight
into the new science of complex fluids. The rich phase
behaviours of complex fluid systems is associated with
the fact that particles are molecular aggregates rather
than simple molecules. The aggregates are thermody-
namically stable structures, which change their size and
shape in response to changes in concentration, compo-
sition, counterion species, temperature, pressure and
other conditions. Garski et al. (26,27) studied by means
of small angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments,
the dependence on concentration and temperature (26),
and pressure (27) of the mean aggregation number (N)
of rodlike tetradecyldimethyl amine oxide micelles in
D
2
O. Small angle scattering with neutrons (SANS) or
with X-rays (SAXS) is one of the most direct methods
for obtaining information about structural details and
their changes and also may help to clarify the results
obtained by other experimental techniques. The combi-
nation of pressure, temperature and SANS or SAXS in
the study of physical properties of micellar systems
opens up new prospects for examining amphiphilic
solutions on a microscopic level.
Zimmerman and Schnaare (28) extended the method
of Rathman and Christian for determining the micellar
activities of dimethyldodecyl amine oxide by pH titra-
tion in the presence of swamping electrolyte to accom-
modate non swamping electrolyte conditions.
Dimethyltetradecyl amine oxide was used as a model
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Fig. 7 Electrophoretic Mobility as a Function of Degree of
Protonation for 0.05 M NaCl Solutions of C
12
DAO
at Surfactant Concentration of 10
-2
g cm
-3
. Square
signs are data for 0.1 M NaCl solutions of C
12
DAO.
Reprinted from Langmuir, Vol. I, 3385-3388, Copyright with
permission from Am. Chem. Soc.
Fig. 8 Plot of the Surface Tension vs the Logarithm of the
Total Surfactant Concentration of the System (I)
C
14
DMAO/NEt
4
-PFOS in 10 mM NEt
4
OH Solution
at Different Mixing Ratios C
14
DMAO/NEt
4
PFOS: a, 9:1; b,7:3; c, 3.5:6.5; d, 2:8.
Reprinted from Langmuir, Vol. 10, 381-389, Copyright with
permission from Am. Chem. Soc.
Fig. 9 cmc as a Function of the Mole Fraction a of
NEt
4
PFOS for the Mixtures (I) C
14
DMAO/NEt
4
PFOS in 10 mM NEt
4
OH Solution.
Reprinted from Langmuir, Vol. 10, 381-389, Copyright with
permission from Am. Chem. Soc.
Amine Oxides: A Review
surfactant in this study. Amine oxide surfactants exist in
solution either as the unprotonated, electrically neutral
Zwitterionic form (AO