Influence of reagent addition on carbodiimide-mediated amidation for poly(ethylene glycol) grafting
Influence of reagent addition on carbodiimide-mediated amidation for poly(ethylene glycol) grafting
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DOI:
10.1002/app.10549
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发表时间:
2002-08-08
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3
通讯作者:
Magoshi, J
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作者:
Araki, J;Kuga, S;Magoshi, J
Poly (ethylene glycol) is a chemically stable and inert polymer that is soluble in water as well as in many organic solvents, 1, 2 hence its use in chemical modification of colloidal particles, including biopolymers. 3–6 The most widely used method for this purpose is carbodiimide-mediated amide binding, 7 especially by 1-ethyl-3-dimethylaminopropyl carbodiimide (EDC). A typical procedure was described by Danishefsky et al., 8 who applied it to a mucopolysaccharide. Their reaction conditions (ie, mixing carboxyls, amines, and carbodiimide under pH 4.75) were followed in many studies5, 9, 10; some reports claimed successful formation of amide linkage, 5, 8 whereas others reported failure in amide formation. 9, 10 Our experience in steric stabilization of cellulose6 also resulted in scarce amide formation under the Danishefsky’s condition.Recently, the use of N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) sulfonate, an activating reagent for carboxyls, was found to be effective for the EDC-mediated amide formation. 10 Although the use of NHS for the cellulose-PEG system was effective, 6 we found the efficiency of grafting varied significantly by changing the order of reagent addition. In the present study, we prepared the PEG-grafted microcrystals by four different methods and evaluated the amount of chemically bound PEG by weight increase, decrease in carboxyl content, and pyrolytic gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS).