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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
Other Investigators:
North, Professor M
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Department: Chemistry
Organisation: Imperial College London
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 August 1995 Ends: 31 December 1996 Value (£): 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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