Template directed synthesis of complex monomer sequences in chain-growth polymerizations

• Applicant: Dr. Niels ten Brummelhuis
• Subject Area: Preparatory and Physical Chemistry of Polymers ; Polymer Materials
• Term: from 2014 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 260112213

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

The DFG Research Grant aimed to use templating effects to control the sequence of the building blocks in polymer chains. Such a control should be able to give us more control over the properties of these materials. Templating, which is achieved by preorganization of the monomers, was achieved by the binding of two different monomers in a single cavity of a cyclodextrin moiety, by using hydrogen bonding of certain solvents and by using covalently bound templating moieties. The work provides a number of different methods to prepare polymers with tailored structures, and these methods could therefore be used to study the influence of the monomer sequence on the properties of the polymers, to create functional materials, etc.

Publications

• Controlling Monomer‐Sequence using Supramolecular Templates, Polym. Chem. 2015, 6, 654‐667
  N. ten Brummelhuis
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c4py01522c)
• Polymerization of Ternary Inclusion Complexes of Interacting Monomer Pairs in γ‐Cyclodextrin, Macromolecules 2016, 49, 6879‐6887
  N. ten Brummelhuis, M.T. Heilmann
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01203)
• Synthesis and Functionalization of Periodic Copolymers, Polymers 2017, 9, 166
  F. Kubatzki, L. Al‐Shok, N. ten Brummelhuis
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3390/polym9050166)