An environmentally friendly lipophilic coating of metal surface
An environmentally friendly coating method of lipophilic thiols on metal surface is described. Lipophilic thiols were chemically modified to a water-soluble derivative, prepared from lipophilic thiol, succinic linker, and symmetrically branched oligoglycerol. Due to the chemical modification, water was used as a solute of coating reagent. The anticorrosive effect of metal piece with the water-soluble derivative in water was as high as with lipophilic thiol in organic solvent.