POLY 423 |
| In recent years, metal-containing polymers have been intensively investigated due to their wide range of potential applications. Optical activity, electrical conductivity, luminescence and photorefractivity represent the promising properties, that have been found for these materials. Metal-containing polymers have also provided new possibilities for the preparation of supramolecular structures: double helicates, dendrimers, ordered architectures on surfaces and self-assembled block copolymers. Terpyridine-moieties, forming complex supramolecular polymeric architectures by self-assembly with transition metal ions, are one of the most widely used metal-complexing ligands in this research area. Among other synthetic strategies to incorporate chelating ligands into the polymer chains known to the literature, the ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters with a polyol initiator is a suitable and efficient technique to synthesize functionalized polymers and complex polymeric architectures. In this presentation, we show the synthesis of novel terpyridine-functionalized poly(ε-caprolactone)s and poly(L-lactide)s and their corresponding iron(II) complexes.
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Metal-Containing and Metallo-Supramolecular Polymers and Materials
6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Tuesday, August 21, 2007 BCEC -- Exhibit Hall - B2, Poster
Division of Polymer Chemistry |
