2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Precise recognition and separation of polymers through the formation of inclusion complexes using amylose-forming polymerization field
Project/Area Number |
19550126
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Polymer chemistry
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Research Institution | Kagoshima University |
Principal Investigator |
KADOKAWA Junichi Kagoshima University, 大学院・理工学研究科(工学系), 教授 (30241722)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KANEKO Yoshirou 鹿児島大学, 理工学研究科(工学系), 助教 (80404474)
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Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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Keywords | アミロース / 酵素重合 / 包接錯体 / 選択的包接 / 超分子 / 高分子混合物 |
Research Abstract |
Amylose, a linear polysaccharide with helical structure linked through (1→4)-α-glycosidic linkages, is a well-known host compound that forms inclusion complexes with relatively lower molecular weight compounds. So far, we have reported the preparation method of the inclusion complexes composed of amylose and the polymeric compounds using phosphorylase-catalyzed polymerization forming amylose in the presence of the guest polymers. This polymerization method is named "vine-twining polymerization". In this study, we found that amylose selectively included poly (tetrahydrofuran) (PTHF) or poly (δ-valerolactone) (PVL) from a mixture of two resemblant polyethers, i.e., poly (oxetane) (POXT) and PTHF, or a mixture of two resemblant polyesters, i.e., PVL and poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) in vine-twining polymerization. In addition, it was found that amylose selectively included a specific range of molecular weights (MWs) in any PTHFs when the vine-twining polymerization was performed in the presence of some PTHFs with different average MWs.
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