Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	GR/L10659/01
Title:	SELF-ASSEMBLING PORPHYRIN POLYMERS
Principal Investigator:	Hunter, Professor CA
Other Investigators:
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:
Department:	Chemistry
Organisation:	University of Sheffield
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 February 1997	Ends:	31 August 1999	Value (£):	94,192
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Materials Synthesis & Growth
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Related Grants:
Panel History:
Summary on Grant Application Form
We have discovered a new highly efficient self-assembly process for constructing porphyrin macrocycles. The aim of this proposal is to extend this approach to the construction of highly functional polymer materials. Cooperative metalloporphyrin-ligand interactions will be used to assemble porphyrins into well-defined polymeric architectures. The polymerisation uses non-covalent interactions and so will be under thermodynamic control. It will therefore be extremely efficient, eliminating any problems of side-product formation. This self-assembly process will allow the facile generation of a large number of unusual polymeric metalloporphyrins whose properties may be manipulated by varying the metal, the coordinating ligands, the substituents on the porphyrin monomers and the environment to which the polymer is exposed. The polymers will have functional properties conferred by the redox and photochemical properties of the porphyrin building blocks which will lead to potential applications in fields such as molecular electronics/optics, solar energy conversion and catalysis. In addition, the self-assembly process will generate within the core of the polymer backbone rigid functionalised cavities which recognise small molecules. These recognition properties will allow non-covalent cross-linking or binding of oligomeric substrates.
Key Findings
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
Potential use in non-academic contexts
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
Impacts
Description This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk Summary Date Materialised
Sectors submitted by the Researcher
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
Project URL:
Further Information:
Organisation Website:	http://www.shef.ac.uk