Chapter 1: (I) Use of chain-modified phospholipids to determine water content of bilayers. (II) Ion transport across bilayers of chain-modified phospholipids. Chapter 2: Synthesis, catalytic properties of and studies toward electron transport by copper-co

Chapter 1. Part (I) describes ;Chapter 2. This chapter describes synthesis, catalytic hydrolysis experiments and studies toward the determination of electron transport across bilayers of metallolipids. Vesicles of copper(II) complexed diamine surfactants accelerated the hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyldiphenylphosphate slower than the acceleration by micellar structures of the analogue (A2) determined by previous studies. Unsuccessful attempts were made to determine the rates of electron transport across bilayers using these compounds.