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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 2.
Published in final edited form as: Langmuir. 2006 Feb 14;22(4):1869–1874. doi: 10.1021/la052187j

Table 1.

Partition Coefficients P and Distribution of Compounds in Bilayer

No. Compound log P
Fraction (%)a
Experiment
C16/DAcPC C16/W O/W Core Headgroups Preferred Locale Method
1 n-hexadecane 6.774 ± 0.354 8.93 8.25 100 0 core74 neutron diffraction
2 benzene 2.189 ± 0.076 2.15 2.13 100 0 core75;
headgroups76
2H and 31P NMR;
1H and 13C NMR
3 toluene 2.454 ± 0.189 2.68 2.73 100 0 core75 2H and 31P NMR
4 n-propylbenzene 2.984b 4.08 3.69 100 0 core19 1H and 13C NMR shifts
5 3-bromoaniline 1.669 ± 0.022 0.90 2.10 99 1 N/A -
6 9-anthracenemethanol 0.217 ± 0.067 1.99 3.45 71 29 interface21 fluorescence quenching
7 4-bromophenol 0.192 ± 0.084 −0.10 2.59 70 30 N/A -
8 benzamide −0.122 ± 0.068 −2.30 0.64 53 47 N/A -
9 2-hydroxybiphenyl −0.152 ± 0.044 1.42 3.09 51 49 N/A -
10 pyridine −0.885 ± 0.016 −0.42 0.65 16 84 headgroups18 2H and 13C MAS NMR
11 2,6-dimethoxyphenol −1.054 ± 0.025 −0.15 1.11 12 88 N/A -
12 benzylalcohol −1.179 ± 0.011 −0.43 1.10 9 91 headgroups19 1H and 13C NMR shifts
13 4-amino-3-methylphenol −1.186 ± 0.121 −2.63 0.697 9 91 N/A -
14 2,3-diaminonaphthtalene −1.694 ± 0.073 −0.56 0.862 3 97 N/A -
15 ethanol −2.081 ± 0.002 −2.19 −0.31 1 99 headgroups77 2H and 31P NMR
16 bisphenol A −2.697 ± 0.100 −0.46 3.32 0 100 c headgroups78 1H and 13C NMR shifts
a

Estimated using the PC16/DAcPC value and the headgroups:core volume ratio 2:3.

b

Estimated using the fragment constant for methylene (= log P (3) − log P (2)) as log P (3) plus two methylene fragment values.27

c

Bisphenol A interacts also with the first two CH2 segments of the fatty acid chains.