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This HOT article represents the first example of thermoregulation of the surface activity of an amphiphilic phosphane by a cyclodextrin.  This allows good activities at temperatures >100 ºC and good separations at 80 ºC and has the potential to be applied to other processes.

Read more about this thermoregulation at:
Supramolecularly controlled surface activity of an amphiphilic ligand. Application to aqueous biphasic hydroformylation of higher olefins
Natacha Six, Antonella Guerriero, David Landy, Maurizio Peruzzini, Luca Gonsalvi, Frédéric Hapiot and Eric Monflier
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00156F