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Fabrication Procedures and Birefringence Measurements for Designing Magnetically Responsive Lanthanide Ion Chelating Phospholipid Assemblies
Published on: January 3, 2018
Exploring the construction of multicompartmental micelles by halogen bonding of complementary macromolecules
Alan Vanderkooy1, Mark S Taylor
1Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada. mtaylor@chem.utoronto.ca.
Abstract:
An approach to the construction of multicompartmental micelles, using halogen bonding between complementary macromolecules, is described. The design involves a sequential assembly protocol, in which the initial compartments are formed by interpolymer halogen bonding, followed by the collapse of a second, hydrophobic compartment upon transfer to aqueous solvent. Triblock terpolymers incorporating a halogen bond accepting segment have been synthesized. Transmission electron microscopy was used to characterize multicompartmental assemblies generated from these terpolymers in the presence of a halogen bond donor-functionalized polystyrene derivative.
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