ORGLIST: fluorocarbonophilic?

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From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl$##$lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 00:00:52 EDT

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While working with florocarbon surfactant-stabilized perflorocarbon
emulsions I noticed a perculiar affinity of perfluorinated compounds
to themselves, and nothing else. In a sense, one could see them to
define another axis in addition to hydrophobic-hydrophilic.

What is the origin of this specific interaction? Dipole-dipole,
entropic (residue packing)? Does the phenomenon also appear in
molecular dynamics simulations of, say, ternary (water, lipid,
perfluorocarbon) systems?

Intrigued,

-- Eugene Leitl
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