Calixarene polymers

Another approach is to generate polymers from polymerizable calixarene monomers. For example, attachment of methacryl groups to the lower rim or the upper rim of a calixarene to give 168 = 0CH2C02Et  

Calixcrown telomers with 5000-7000 have been prepared from calixcrown 

000 are produced when the calix[8]arene 167 (R = CMe20Me Y = OMe n = 8) is treated with isobutylene in the presence of BClj-TiCl.  

De]ig6z, H. Yilmaz, M. J. Polymer Sci. Part A Polymer Chem. 1995,33,2851. 

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Stmctural and chemical modification of urethane containing polymer matri-ces with macrocycles - calixarenes having reactive hydrazide groups have been carried out and stmcture, physico chemical and sensor properties of polyure-thanesemicarbazides (PUS) synthesised have been studied. The polymers obtained (on the base of polypropylene glycol MM 1000 and polysiloxane diol MM 860, hexamethylene diisocyanate and calixarene dihydrazide) are identified by IR-spectroscopy, size exclusion chromatography (SEC), DSC, WAXS and SAXS methods. 

The majority of the literature reports deal with the reaction of calixarenes with Group I and II cations. Polymeric calixarenes have been the subject of a more recent innovation. Harris et al. [23] have prepared a calix[4]ar-ene methacrylate, its polymerization, and Na complex-ation (Scheme 3). They concluded that both monomers and polymers form stable complexes with sodium thiocyanate. 

Selective extraction experiments were then performed to see transference of some transition elements (Cu ", Ni ", Co ", and Fe " ) from the aqueous phase to the organic phase by the synthesized polymeric calixarenes. Phase-transfer studies in water-chloroform confirmed that polymer 2b and 3b were Fe ion-selective as was its monomer (1). Extraction of Fe " cation with 2b and 3b was observed to be maximum at pH 5.4. Only trace amounts of other metal cations such as Cu, Ni ", and Co " were transferred from the aqueous to the organic phase (Table 3). Furthermore, the extracted quantities of these cations remained unaffected with increasing pH. The effect of pH on the extraction of 3b was lower and 56% extraction was accomplished even at pH 2.2. The extraction experiments were also performed with calix[4]arene (1) the ratio was 8.4% at pH 2.2. The polymeric calix[4]arenes were selective to extract Fe " from an aqueous solution, which contained Cu +, Ni, Co ", and Fe " cations, and it was observed that the... 

Polymer supported xanthene derivatives have been used in the solid phase synthesis of 1-aminophosphinic acids, RCH(NH2)PH(0)0H, <%TL1647> and of C-terminal peptide amides <96JOC6326>. Xanthene units also feature in crown ethers <96JCS(P2)2091>, calixarenes <96JOC5670> and in a flexible template for a P-sheet nucleator <96JOC7408>. 

Figure 9. Top Two tetraurea calixarene monomers connected by a rigid spacer at their bottom rim display diverging hydrogen-bonding sites ideally suited for polymerization. The polymer (53) bears capsules of ca. 1.6 nm x 2.2 nm dimensions like beads on a string. Bottom Photomicrographs of typical Schlieren textures of 53 in chloroform (top row, left) and p-difluorobenzene (top row, middle) as viewed...

The network structures to be discussed will all involved hydrogen bonding as the supramolecular synthon. It should be noted however that other interactions such as coordinate bonds and host-guest interactions may also organise host molecules into network structures. Coordination polymers constructed from molecular hosts may involve functionalised calixarenes [8-11], cyclotriveratrylene [12], or cucurbituril [13]. Calixarenes have also been used to build up network structures via host-guest interactions [14,15]. It is also notable that volatile species may be trapped within the solid state lattice of calix[4] arene with a structure entirely composed of van der Waals interactions [16]. 

He also prepared a poly(styrene-g-styrene) polymer by this technique [114], The lack of crosslinking in these systems is indeed proof of the control achieved with this technique. An eight-arm star polystyrene has also been prepared starting from a calixarene derivative under ATRP conditions [115]. On the other hand, Sawamoto and his coworkers used multifunctional chloroacetate initiator sites and mediation with Ru2+ complexes for the living free-radical polymerization of star poly(methylmethacrylate) [116,117]. More recent work by Hedrick et al. [84] has demonstrated major progress in the use of dendritic initiators [98] in combination with ATRP and other methodologies to produce a variety of structure controlled, starlike poly(methylmethacrylate). 

The sensor covalently joined a bithiophene unit with a crown ether macrocycle as the monomeric unit for polymerization (Scheme 1). The spatial distribution of oxygen coordination sites around a metal ion causes planarization of the backbone in the bithiophene, eliciting a red-shift upon metal coordination. They expanded upon this bithiophene structure by replacing the crown ether macrocycle with a calixarene-based ion receptor, and worked with both a monomeric model and a polymeric version to compare ion-binding specificity and behavior [13]. The monomer exhibited less specificity for Na+ than the polymer. However, with the gradual addition of Na+, the monomer underwent a steady blue shift in fluorescence emission whereas the polymer appeared to reach a critical concentration where the spectra rapidly transitioned to a shorter wavelength. Scheme 2 illustrates the proposed explanation for blue shift with increasing ion concentration. 

In principle, there are four basic strategies to compensate for the repulsive effects between the hydrophobic fullerene surface and water (a) encapsulation in the internal hydrophobic moiety of water-soluble hosts like cyclodextrins (Andersson et al., 1992 Murthy and Geckeler, 2001), calixarenes (Kunsagi-Mate et al., 2004) or cyclotriveratrylenes (Rio and Nierengarten, 2002) (b) supramolecular or covalent incorporation of fullerenes or derivatives into water-soluble polymers (Giacalone and Martin, 2006) or biomolecules like proteins (Pellarini et al., 2001 Yang et al., 2007) (c) suspension with the aid of appropriate surfactants and (d) direct exohe-dral functionalization in order to introduce hydrophilic moieties. 

Low affinity to polar solvents and fullerenes aggregation in water limit their use in biologic systems. To increase water solubility of fullerenes, few ways are used solubilization with the use of some water-soluble polymers like PDT or polyvin-ilpyrrolidone, generation of complexes with cyclodextrines or calixarenes, and... 

With the increasing demand for chiral nonracemic compounds, stereoselective methods for the synthesis of 1,3-oxazine derivatives and applications of enantiopure 1,3-oxazines in asymmetric transformations have gained in importance in the past decade, as reflected by the increasing trend in the number of publications on this topic, and accordingly by the share of this topic in the present compilation. The limited size of this survey and the scope of this chapter do not allow a discussion here of the applications of 1,3-oxazines in polymer chemistry and the synthesis and properties of 1,3-benzoxazine-containing hetero-calixarenes. 

Figure 6.5 Combination of a double calixarene koilartd (6.14) with a long, linear guest such as hexadiyne gives an inclusion polymer or koilate (two repeat units shown).4...

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