Abstract:
Self-assembly of arjunolic acid, a naturally occurring 6-6-6-6-6 trihydroxytriterpenic
acid, in bilary liquid mixtures has been reported yielding vesicles of nano to
micrometer diameters (B.G. Bag, R. Majumdar, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 53327-53334).
Critical vesicular concentration (cvc) of arjunolic acid is reported here using the
fluorescence probe of pyrene monomer. The cvc determined by this method in
DMSO-water binary liquid mixtures at 2:1, 1:1, and 1:4 v/v ratio were determined to
be 68 M, 57 M and 49 M respectively showing a lowering in the cvc’s with
increasing percentage of water.
