Perfect Alignment of Polymer Chains by Host-Guest Copolymerization

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24685017
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Polymer chemistry
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: UEMURA Takashi 京都大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (50346079)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 高分子 / 多孔性金属錯体 / 配向制御

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We disclose a novel strategy to produce unprecedented polymeric materials that exhibit a crystalline arrangement promoted by "ordered cross-links". Styrene as a representative of vinyl monomers could be cross-polymerized in situ with divinyl cross-linkers (2,5-divinyl-terephthalate) embedded, as substitutional defects, within the porous coordination polymer (PCP) architecture of [Cu(terephthalate)triethylenediamine0.5]n. Single polystyrene (PSt) chains are mutually cross-linked by the functionalized ligands that bridge the adjacent nanochannels of the PCP. The obtained polymer exhibited long-range order and was stable to thermal and solvent treatments as demonstrated by X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

Free Research Field

高分子化学、錯体化学