Thermoresponsive polymer-bound substrates
Thermoresponsive polymer-bound substrates
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DOI:
10.1021/ja954065r
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发表时间:
1996-06-26
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15
通讯作者:
Caraway, JW
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作者:
Bergbreiter, DE;Caraway, JW
Polymers are now widely used in synthesis. 1-5 This use is most commonly seen in the synthesis of bioorganic materials like peptides and nucleotides. 1, 2 Continuing advances in areas like catalysis4 and combinatorial chemistry5 have also led to the ever increasing use of polymer supports in more conventional organic chemistry. The main role of the polymer in much of this chemistry is that of separation. The polymer separates a substrate or catalyst from other products or facilitates separation of library members from one another. However, the intrinsic differences between polymers and small molecules mean that there are other significant ways in which polymers can be used to affect the reactivity of pendant substrate groups. Here we describe a polymer that can be used to separate and recover reagents and whose inverse temperature dependent solubility affects a substrate’s solubility in useful ways. Specifically, we show how a polymer can affect a bound substrate’s reactivity toward a heterogeneous hydrogenation catalyst in a reversible, responsive way by virtue of the polymer support’s inverse temperature dependent solubility. Unlike small molecules, most polymers phase separate from solution when the solution is heated. 6 In the case of a hydrocarbon polymer in organic solvents, this effect occurs above the boiling point of the solvent (eg poly (isobutylene) in pentane at 75 C). 7 Water soluble polymers, however, phase separate in more accessible temperature ranges. Moreover, the temperature at which this phase separation occurs can be tuned by altering the structure of the polymer in predictable ways. 8 Recently we described examples of homogeneous catalysis in water where we used this effect to prepare so-called “smart” catalysts. 9, 10 In these cases, soluble polymer-bound catalysts were prepared using polymeric ligands that possessed inverse temperature dependent solubility. The resulting catalysts were active when in solution and inactive when phase separated. This report extends and expands on this chemistry to include other polymers and polymer-bound substrates. Kinetic studies of the effects of very modest changes in temperature on these reducible polymer-bound substrates under “normal” solvent/temperature conditions and under “inverse” solvent/temperature conditions illustrate the difference from normal temperature dependent kinetic behavior. Our results suggest that poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM) copolymer-bound substrates should be most useful in this regard. In addition, PNIPAM-bound substrates can be isolated and separated from soluble reagents simply by heating and decantation of excess water from the resulting polymer suspension. The principle polymer substrate support used for the chemistry described below was a copolymer produced by radical polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide and acrylic acid or derivatives. The most detailed kinetic studies used the copolymer 1 prepared by AIBN-initiated copolymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide and the m-nitroaniline amide of acrylic acid (eq 1). The product copolymer was characterized by 1H and13C NMR and FT-IR spectroscopy. The Mν of 1 was measured and was 3.2× 105 Da using values of 9.59× 10-3 mL/g and 0.65 for K and a in THF at 27 C. 11 The homopolymer poly-(N-isopropylacrylamide) is known to have inverse temperature dependent solubility with a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of 31-32 C. 9, 11 Variable temperature UV-visible spectroscopy studies of 0.1 N aqueous solutions of 1 at 700 nm (where there was no initial absorbance) demonstrated opacity which became apparent at 24 C. The solution was visually opaque …