Reactivity and selectivity in aggregate systems

Abstract

The issue of reactivity and selectivity in aggregates, mainly micelles or vesicles, is here shortly overviewed. The discussion is particularly addressed to reactivity, mainly in aqueous solutions, containing micelles and vesicles made of or containing inert, functionalized, and metal ion complexed surfactant-like substances, from a mechanistic point of view. Selectivity is mainly restricted to enantioselectivity effects in metalloaggregates of chiral ligand with transition metal ions and to the factors wich determine or influence such effects.