| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/J59784/01 |
| Title: |
STEREOREGULAR POLYMERS FROM GLYCALS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Steel, Professor P |
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Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
Durham, University of |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 December 1993 |
Ends: |
31 March 1997 |
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103,418
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| Materials Synthesis & Growth |
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A series of unsaturated sugars, glycals, will be prepared either from readily available natural sources or via asymmetric synthesis. These will then be polymerised using a range of initiation conditions. Initially, cationic procedures; Lewis acids, modified Ziegler-Natta catalysts, etc; to produce homopolymers will be used. Subsequently other modes of polymerisation, for example free radical copolymerisation with electron deficient olefins, will be explored. In all these cases is is the level of stereocontrol that is of interest. it is postulated that the known stereoselectivity shown by these substrates in their traditional chemistry can be extended to the polymerisation process and that this will provide material with a well-defined structure at all levels (primary, secondary and tertiary). This will be examined by a variety of spectroscopic and analytical techniques. Finally the polymers so obtained will possess a variety of functional groups for further derivitisation and the modification of the bulk physical properties in this manner will be examined.
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