CORESTA Meeting, Smoke/Technology, Innsbruck, 1999, ST03
The hydrophobic aspect of nicotine
Philip Morris USA, Research Center, Richmond, VA, USA
Nicotine is a fundamentally hydrophobic molecule containing two amine functions which solubilize it in water. It falls into the class of amphiphilic solutes, i.e. molecules with both hydrophobic and hydrophilic attributes. The opposing tendencies...