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Well-Defined Multi-Amino-Functional and Stimuli-Responsive Poly(propylene oxide) by Crown Ether Assisted Anionic Ring-Opening Polymerization
2017
Multi-amino-functional poly(propylene oxide) (PPO) copolymers were synthesized by the anionic ring-opening copolymerization (AROP) of N,N-diethyl glycidyl amine (DEGA) and propylene oxide (PO). A solvent free synthesis route using potassium counterions and crown ether for the AROP enabled controlled (co)polymerization with full conversion. The strategy provided access to PPO-b-PDEGA block copolymers, statistical PPO-co-PDEGA copolymers, and, for the first time, PDEGA homopolymer. Molecular weights in the range of 1400 to 4200 g/mol (Mn) and dispersities (Mw/Mn) below 1.1 were obtained. Both the kinetics and resulting microstructure of the statistical copolymerization were investigated by in…
Solution Properties and Potential Biological Applications of Zwitterionic Poly(ε-N-methacryloyl-l-lysine)
2013
Poly(e-N-methacryloyl-l-lysine) (PMALys) was synthesized by free radical polymerization yielding a zwitterionic polymer with Mw = 721 000 g mol–1. The polymer dissolves in pure water as well as in aqueous salt solution up to 5 M NaClO4 and over wide range of pH values (1.3 ≤ pH ≤ 12.7) as single chains without any sign for aggregate formation. The zwitterionic polymer shows an expanded random coil structure at and close to isoelectric conditions and further expands upon addition of acid and base, respectively. The polymer fulfills four major prerequisites for a promising nano carrier in potential biomedical applications: (1) It is biocompatible, indicated by a low cytotoxicity. (2) It does …
Structural Characterization of Glycoconjugate Polystyrene in Aqueous Solution
1999
Maltopentaose-carrying polystyrene was synthesized by the homopolymerization of vinylbenzyl maltopentaose amide. Resulted amphiphilc polymacromonomer was dissolved in 0.1 M urea aqueous solution, and its structure was characterized by small-angle X-ray scattering and molecular modeling. Maltopentaose-carrying polystyrene polymacromonomer was found to be represented by a molecular bottlebrush, composed of a large helix of polystyrene backbone and maltopentaose brushes. The molecular bottlebrush seems to be distributed randomly or many even be broken once or twice in segments with no apparent intersegmental spatial correlation. A large helix of polystyrene backbone is formed by a random seque…
Atomistic Simulations of Functional Au_{144}(SR)_{60} Gold Nanoparticles in Aqueous Environment
2012
Charged monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been studied in aqueous solution by performing atomistic molecular dynamics simulations at physiological temperature (310 K). Particular attention has been paid to electrostatic properties that modulate the formation of a complex comprised of the nanoparticle together with surrounding ions and water. We focus on Au-144 nanoparticles that comprise a nearly spherical Au core (diameter similar to 2 nm), a passivating Au-S interface, and functionalized alkanethiol chains. Cationic and anionic AuNPs have been modeled with amine and carboxyl terminal groups and Cl-/Na+ counterions, respectively. The radial distribution functions show tha…
Membrane Transport of l-Arginine and Cationic Amino Acid Analogs
2000
Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the current knowledge of the mechanisms and regulation of cationic amino acids (CAA) carrier proteins and discusses the potential involvement of each transporter in supplying L-arginine for nitric oxide biosynthesis. The CAA L-arginine, the substrate for nitric oxide synthases (NOSs), is considered a semi-essential amino acid in most mammals. Consequently, mammalian cells must be capable of exchanging CAA with the environment. The bilayer of the plasma membrane is impermeable to polar molecules, and thus, specialized carrier proteins with distinct substrate specificity transport hydrophilic solutes such as amino acids. L-arginine shares the same transp…
Kinetic Investigation on Metal Free Anionic Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate Using Tetraphenylphosphonium as the Counterion in Tetrahydrofuran
1997
The anionic polymerization of methyl methacrylate using tetraphenylphosphonium triphenylmethanide as an initiator proceeds in a living manner even at room temperature. The rate constants of propagation were measured between -20 and +20 °C using a flow tube reactor. At 0 °C the reaction half-lives range from 0.3 to 1 s. The polymerization follows first-order kinetics with respect to monomer conversion (with a short induction period) and shows a linear dependence of the number-average degree of polymerization on conversion with high initiator efficiencies and narrow molecular weight distributions (M w /M n < 1.1). The dependence of the measured rate constants on the active center concentratio…
Weak interactions between resorcinarenes and diquaternary alkyl ammonium cations
2005
The interactions of resorcin[4]arenes 1 with alkyl ammonium cations bearing a 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO) scaffold (32+, 42+ and 52+) were analyzed in the solid state by X-ray crystallography, in solution by 1H NMR spectroscopy, and in the gas phase by ESI-TOF mass spectrometry. The results are complemented with AM1 calculations and compared to previous reports on complexation studies of resorcinarenes with quaternary alkyl ammonium cations. The NMR titration results indicate that there are hardly any differences in the binding of the quaternary tetramethyl ammonium cation 2+ and the diquaternary N,N’-dimethyl DABCO dication 42+. The large N,N’-dibenzyl DABCO dication 52+ has two …
Zur verzögernden wirkung aromatischer aldehyde auf die radikalische polymerisation von vinylverbindungen
1972
Die Einwirkung einer Reihe aromatischer Aldehyde auf die mit α.α-′Azobisisobuttersaurenitril gestarteten Polymerisationen von Styrol und Methacrylsauremethylester wurde untersucht (a) durch Vergleich der Polymerausbeuten; (b) durch quantitative Analyse der UV-Spektren der gereinigten Polymeren und (c) durch Vergleich ihrer Mn- und Mn-Werte. Bei der Styrolpolymerisation zeigen 4-Phenyl-benzaldehyd und Indol-3-aldehyd keine Einwirkung. 4-Phenylazo-benzaldehyd, Benzaldehyd, Anthracen-9-aldehyd und m-(2.4-Dinitrophenoxy)-benzaldehyd verzogern die Polymerisation. Bis auf Benzaldehyd wird hierbei ihr kovalenter Einbau in das Polystyrol nachgewiesen. Fur 4-Phenylazo-benzaldehyd konnte eine scheinb…
A Versatile Grafting-to Approach for the Bioconjugation of Polymers to Collagen-like Peptides Using an Activated Ester Chain Transfer Agent
2009
DepartmentofMaterials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, 201DuPont Hall, Newark, Delaware 19716,Received February 24, 2009Revised Manuscript Received April 24, 2009Biohybrid materials consisting of synthetic polymers andbiological moieties have gained more and more interest in therecent years.
Radioactive labeling of defined HPMA-based polymeric structures using [18F]FETos for in vivo imaging by positron emission tomography.
2009
During the last decades polymer-based nanomedicine has turned out to be a promising tool in modern pharmaceutics. The following article describes the synthesis of well-defined random and block copolymers by RAFT polymerization with potential medical application. The polymers have been labeled with the positron-emitting nuclide fluorine-18. The polymeric structures are based on the biocompatible N-(2-hydroxypropyl)-methacrylamide (HPMA). To achieve these structures, functional reactive ester polymers with a molecular weight within the range of 25,000-110,000 g/mol were aminolyzed by 2-hydroxypropylamine and tyramine (3%) to form (18)F-labelable HPMA-polymer precursors. The labeling procedure…