Molecular and crystal structure of a nonionic detergent: nonanoyl-N-methylglucamide

1 January 1986

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 21,p. 1573-1574
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39860001573

Abstract

In crystals of the nonionic detergent nonanoyl-N-methylglucamide, molecules are packed parallel in sheets with adjacent sheets being arranged in a head-to-tail fashion; an unusual conformation of the polar head moiety explains why this compound forms micelles whereas the related alkylglyconamides do not.

Keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE