Preparation of supramolecular polymers by copolymerization of monomers containing quadruple hydrogen bonding units with regular monomers

H.M. Janssen (Inventor), G.M.L. Gemert, van (Inventor), A.T. Cate, ten (Inventor), D.J.M. Beek, van (Inventor), R.P. Sijbesma (Inventor), E.W. Meijer (Inventor), A.W. Bosman (Inventor)

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Abstract

The invention relates to the synthesis of polymers contg. self-complementary quadruple H groups by copolymg. monomers contg. a quadruple H bonding group with ³1 monomers of choice. The resulting polymers show unique new characteristics due to the presence of addnl. phys. interactions between the polymer chains that are based on multiple H bonding interactions (supramol. interactions). Thus, 2-isocyanatoethyl methacrylate (7.0 mL) was added to a soln. of 6-(1-ethylpentyl)isocytosine (13.4 g) in dry pyridine (150 mL), the reaction mixt. was stirred under Ar at 80° for 4 h to give a monomer, and was polymerizable with 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate in the presence of ATRP initiators, CuBr, and bipyridine.
Original languageEnglish
Patent numberUS2004034190
Publication statusPublished - 19 Feb 2004

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