Characterization of poly(2-oxazoline) homo- and copolymers by liquid chromatography at critical conditions
Anja Baumgaertel1, Christine Weber, Nicole Fritz
1Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany.
Abstract:
In this study liquid chromatography at critical conditions for poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline)s (PEtOx) has been performed for the first time in order to analyze functional PEtOx homopolymers and block copolymers. Besides the verification of the critical point of adsorption with two series of ester end group functionalized PEtOx homopolymers, to evaluate the effect of both the chain length dependence and the end group polarity, using a cyano column with a solvent combination of 2-propanol and water, also two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC) has been applied for a poly(2-oxazoline) block copolymer. The combined characterization techniques provided further information about the polymerization procedure with regard to the formation of side-products by separation of the block copolymer from the corresponding homopolymer impurities. In addition, hyphenation of LCCC with MALDI-TOF MS and ESI-Q-TOF tandem mass spectrometry verified the obtained results.
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