| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L15364/01 |
| Title: |
HOMOCHIRAL LIVING POLYMERS WITH WELL-DEFINED BUT VARIABLE MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE DERIVED FROM AMINO ACIDS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Gibson, Professor V |
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Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 August 1995 |
Ends: |
31 December 1996 |
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38,733
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| Materials Synthesis & Growth |
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It is intended to prepare optically pure amino acid and peptide derived nornornene monomers suitable for ring opening metathesis polymerisation. Polymerisation will give a homochiral 'living' polymer with a narrow molecular weight distribution and highly ordered molecular architecture. By variation of the monomer units and polymerisation conditions (initiator/monomer ratio, initiator structure) it will be possible to 'design in' structural features into the polymer. The structures of the polymers will be investigated by a variety of analytical methods.
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