TY - JOUR AU - Bachmann, Pascale Angelica AU - Luisi, Pier Luigi AU - Lang, Jacques PY - 1991/09/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Self-replicating Reverse Micelles JF - CHIMIA JA - Chimia VL - 45 IS - 9 SE - Forschung DO - 10.2533/chimia.1991.266 UR - https://www.chimia.ch/chimia/article/view/1991_266 SP - 266 AB - Conditions are described, under which the hydrolysis of octyl octanoate (O-OA) takes place at the interface of reverse micelles fanned by sodium octanoate (OA) in isooctane. Since the micelle-mediated hydrolysis affords fresh OA, which spontaneously assemble into new micelles, the reaction can be seen as a self-replicating process. The kinetics and the spectroscopy of this self-replication process are presented. ER -