10Metallosurfactants and Their Biological Attributes: Anticancer and Antimicrobial Properties
Neha Jindal1 and Shivani Uppal2
1DAV College, PG Department of Chemistry, Bathinda 151001, Punjab, India
2Panjab University, Centre of Advanced Studies in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Chandigarh, 160014, India
10.1 Introduction
Surfactants, the surface‐active agents, are amphiphilic compounds that render special properties owing to their ability to solubilize in both polar and non‐polar solvents. They have the unique ability to gather themselves at a particular concentration to form aggregates. This ability of self‐aggregation of the surfactants in the presence of metal into metalloaggregates was first described in the 1980s [1], and since ...
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