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EPSRC Reference: GR/J67758/01
Title: HOMOCHIRAL LIVING POLYMERS WITH WELL DEFINED BUT VARIABLE MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE DERIVED FROM AMINO ACIDS
Principal Investigator: North, Professor M
Other Investigators:
Gibson, Professor V
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Department: Sch of Chemistry
Organisation: Bangor University
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 17 October 1994 Ends: 16 October 1996 Value (£): 57,529
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Materials Synthesis & Growth
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It is intended to prepare optically pure amino acid and peptide derived norbornene 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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