ISSN:
0025-116X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
Copolymers of glycine and β-alanine within a range of amount-of-substance compositions from 3:1 to 1:9 were prepared by polycondensation of mixtures of the respective pentachlorophenyl ester hydrobromides. Number-average molecular weights between 2 500 and 9 000 were obtained, the lower values corresponding to those copolymers with a higher content in glycine. Sequence distributions were evaluated by means of 50,3 MHz 13C NMR spectroscopy and the crystalline structure was examined by wide-angle X-ray diffraction. Random copolymers having similar contents in glycine and β-alanine were found to crystallize in a bidimensional hexagonal lattice (a = 4,79 Å) with chains packed in a similar manner as they do in the crystalline structure of polyglycine II. On the contrary, a heterogeneous product consisting of homopolymer and random copolymer fractions results from mixtures which are enriched in one of the two amino acids. The random copolymer poly(glycine-ran-β-alanine) adopts a packing scheme similar to that found for the helical form of the alternating copolymer nylon 2/3. Chains are hexagonally arranged and interlinked by a three-dimensional network of hydrogen bonds as described for the well known model of polyglycine II, although in the present case no order along the chain axis should be expected.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/macp.1989.021900618
