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However, due to the unidirectivity of conventional surfactants, the difficulty in demulsifying petroleum emulsions generated after emulsification with such surfactants increases sharply. Therefore, it is of great significance and application value to design and develop a novel switchable surfactant for oil exploitation. In this study, a CO2-switchable Gemini surfactant of N,N\u2032-dimethyl-N,N\u2032-didodecyl butylene diamine (DMDBA) was synthesized from 1, 4-dibromobutane, dodecylamine, formic acid, and formaldehyde. Then, the synthesized surfactant was structurally characterized by infrared (IR) spectroscopy, hydrogen nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) spectroscopy, and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS); the changes in conductivity and Zeta potential of DMDBA before and after CO2\/N2 injection were also studied. The results show that DMDBA had a good CO2 response and cycle reversibility. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) of cationic surfactant obtained from DMDBA by injecting CO2 was 1.45 \u00d7 10\u22124 mol\/L, the surface tension at CMC was 33.4 mN\u00b7m\u22121, and the contact angle with paraffin was less than 90\u00b0, indicating that it had a good surface activity and wettability. In addition, the kinetic law of the process of producing surfactant by injecting CO2 was studied, and it was found that the process was a second-order reaction. The influence of temperature and gas velocity on the reaction dynamics was explored. The calculated values from the equation were in good agreement with the measured values, with a correlation coefficient greater than 0.9950. 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