- Title
- Synthesis of fluorescent polymers with pendant triazole-substituted coumarin side-chains via a combination of click chemistry and raft-mediated polymerization
- Creator
- Wali, Nwabisa Whitney
- Subject
- Fluorescent polymers
- Subject
- Polymerization
- Subject
- Macromolecules -- Synthesis
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- vital:10432
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020142
- Description
- This research project focuses on the synthesis of fluorescent polymers with pendant triazole-substituted coumarin side chain units. Copper(I)-catalyzed Huisgen’s 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of alkynes with azides to form a 1,2,3-triazole ring, a typical example of “click” reaction, has been utilized for the synthesis of a novel vinyl monomer, 2-oxo-3-(4- vinyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)-2H-chromen-7-yl acetate 62. The monomer and its precursors were synthesised and characterized using 1D- and 2D-NMR and FT-IR. Coumarin-containing triazole polymers were synthesised using free radical polymerization. Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT)-mediated polymerization was used to synthesise well defined coumarin-containing triazole polymers with moderate PDI values. The polymers were characterised using 1H-NMR and FT-IR. Modelling of the monomer precursor 61 and the monomer 62 at DFT level of approximation provided useful insights into possible conformations adopted by the monomer precursor 61 and the monomer 62. The photophysical properties of the novel monomer and the synthesised polymers were investigated in a polar solvent.
- Format
- xi, 80 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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