Molecularly imprinted polymer beads polymerisation

Mayes, A.G. Mosbach, K. Molecularly imprinted polymer beads Suspension polymerisation using a liquid perfluorocarbon as the dispersing phase. Anal. Chem. 1996, 68, 3769-3774. 

Unfortunately, to date, this technique has received little attention from the molecular imprinting community and only one report of a dispersion polymerisation method had appeared until very recently [26]. This is probably better classified as a precipitation polymerisation, since random aggregates were produced rather than beads. No colloidal stabilisers were included in this procedure. The aggregates were made in situ in chromatography columns, which avoided the need to grind and sieve the polymer and pack the columns. Due to the rather polar nature of the solvent mixtures used (cyclohexanol, dodecanol, isopropanol), good imprints were only achieved for compounds which interact strongly with functional monomer... 

A. G. Mayes, Chapter 12 Polymerisation techniques for the formation of imprinted beads, in Molecularly ImprirUed Polymers Man Made Mimics of Antibodies and their Applications in Analytical Chemistry, ed. B. SeUragren, Elsevier Science B. V., Amstedam, 2001, vol. 23, p. 305. 

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