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Synthesis and self-assembly of amphiphilic chiral poly(amino acid) star polymers

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posted on 2016-10-17, 11:48 authored by Jared Skey, Helen WillcockHelen Willcock, Mieke Lammens, Filip Du Prez, Rachel K. O'Reilly
Reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization techniques were utilized to polymerize N-acryloyl-l-phenylalanine methyl ester (l-Phe-OMe) and tetrahydropyranyl acrylate to afford amphiphilic star polymers (with 4 and 6 arms). These copolymer stars have a chiral hydrophobic core domain and can undergo further solution self-assembly to form well-defined nanostructures, which have been characterized using DLS, TEM, and cryo-TEM analysis. The characterization and properties of these novel chiral assemblies and their potential in racemic resolution are reported.

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J.S., H.W., and R.O.R. acknowledge the Royal Society, ESPRC, The Leverhulme Trust, and the University of Warwick for funding. Some of the equipment used in this research was ... part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). M.L. thanks the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation through Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT-Vlaanderen) for a PhD scholarship. The European Science Foundation (ESF) Scientific Programme (STIPOMAT) and the Belgian Program on Inter-University Attraction Poles initiated by the Belgian State, Prime Minister’s office (ProgramP6/27), are acknowledged for financial support.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

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  • Materials

Published in

Macromolecules

Volume

43

Issue

14

Pages

5949 - 5955

Citation

SKEY, J. .. et al., 2010. Synthesis and self-assembly of amphiphilic chiral poly(amino acid) star polymers. Macromolecules, 43 (14), pp.5949-5955.

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© American Chemical Society

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2010

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Closed access. This article was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society [© American Chemical Society] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ma101019g.

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0024-9297

eISSN

1520-5835

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  • en

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    PolymersMaterials Engineering not elsewhere classified

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