Biopolymer based chiral selector for chiral monomer separations

POLY 95

Liya Liu, lliu@ensnano.com, Christopher M. Sprout, Chriss@ensbio.com, Guanglou Cheng, louc@ensbio.com, and Regina Valluzzi, rvalluzzi@ensnano.com. R&D, ENS, 675 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Chirality plays an intriguing role in organic and polymeric materials, offering the possibility of novel structures, properties improvements and new application areas. A new biopolymeric material has been developed for chiral chromatographic separations, having selectivity for small chiral molecules commonly used as monomers, and materials precursors. There have been a number of recent advances in chiral synthesis and resolution, some of which have been adopted for chiral materials and polymer synthesis. Chromatographic resolution of chiral monomers and building blocks provides a key complementary approach, because of the broad applicability of chromatography to a wide variety of molecular chemistries. A description of key features of the material and example small molecule and monomer separations will be presented.
 

General Papers: Polymers and Biology
6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Sunday, 10 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Hall D, Poster

Sci-Mix
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monday, 11 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Hall D, Sci-Mix

Division of Polymer Chemistry

The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006