Polymers with metal-binding units may serve as metal-transport or metal-sequestering agents and play important roles in a variety of processes that include environmental remediation, extraction of valuable metals, metal-chelation therapies or metallo-drug delivery agents. This poster describes the use of RAFT polymerization for the synthesis of acrylamide homopolymers with side-chain amine and ether donors moieties. Examples are N-[2-(diethylamino)ethyl] polyacrylamide (pDEEN), N-[2-(dibutylamino)ethyl]polyacrylamide (pDBEN), and poly(N-methoxyethylacrylamide) (pOMe) and diblock copolymers of these polymers and polydimethylacrylamide. Studies that demonstrate the ability of these polymers to form micelles, to bind copper(II) and to release the metal when mixed with ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) are presented.

Transition metal ion encapsulation via micelles of diblock copolymers

256th National Meeting (2018)

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