Employing reversable addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerization to synthesize alkyne-functional amphiphilic diblock copolymers

POLY 431

Addison A. Bouchard, Addison.A.Bouchard@Dartmouth.edu, Laura B. Sessions, laura.b.sessions@dartmouth.edu, Anand Sundararaman, and Robert B. Grubbs, Robert.B.Grubbs@Dartmouth.EDU. Department of Chemistry/Center for Nanomaterials Research, Dartmouth College, 6128 Burke Laboratory, Hanover, NH 03755
The preparation of PEO-block-PTMSES by RAFT polymerization is described herein. The resulting diblock copolymer was analyzed using 1H NMR and SEC. Further analysis will elucidate the properties and solution-dependant structure of the diblock copolymer. The pendant alkyne groups can be used for further reactions, including the complexation of metals to the hydrophobic block of the copolymer for subsequent formation of metallic nanoparticles.
 

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