Sensing chemical warfare agents with terpyridine based macromolecules

POLY 520

Raja Shunmugam, raja@mail.pse.umass.edu, Polymer science and Enggineering, UMASS, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003 and Gregory N. Tew, tew@mail.pse.umass.edu, Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 120 Governor Dr, Amherst, MA 01003.
New and interesting properties can be obtained from macromolecule architectures functionalized with supramolecular moieties. The incorporation of metal-ligands to polymer backbone impart many properties including luminescence, electro- and photo-chemistry, catalysis, charge, magnetism, and thermochromism. We report novel macromolecules prepared via ATRP that contain activated esters for subsequent incorporation of terpyridine. The addition of lanthanide ions (Eu3+and Tb3+) gave metal functionalized polymers that exhibited excellent emission of either pink (Eu3+) or green (Tb3+) light. These tepyridine-lanthanide complexes will be subsequently used for the sensor applications.
 

Metal-Containing and Metallo-Supramolecular Polymers and Materials
7:55 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Westin Boston Waterfront -- Stone, Oral

Division of Polymer Chemistry

The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007