Side chain terpyridine motifs for supramolecular materials

POLY 427

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, thermochromism and self assembly. We report novel macromolecules prepared via ATRP that contain activated esters for subsequent incorporation of terpyridine. The addition of metal salts gave metal functionalized polymers that exhibited self assembled architectures.
 

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

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