Flow-IEG enables programmable thermodynamic properties in sequence-defined unimolecular macromolecules
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Author(s)
Wicker, Amanda C. (Amanda Catherine)
Advisor(s)
Timothy F. Jamison.
Date Issued
2017
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Flow-IEG has emerged as a powerful platform for the production of sequence-defined macromolecules and has demonstrated the utility of adapting continuous-flow methodologies to the production of materials for structure/function analysis. Our Flow-IEG system has been expanded to include both the ruthenium-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (RuAAC), as well as a more operationally simple version of the copper-catalyzed analogue (CuAAC). These advances have enabled the rapid synthesis of a library of oligomers with systematic variations in triazole connectivity, allowing us to probe the consequences of sequential connectivity on material properties. In our investigation, we found that the crystallinity of the synthesized materials increased with higher proportions of 1,4- to 1,5-triazoles, from which a set of predictive design rules was developed and applied to a second library of diblock copolymers. Furthermore, we discovered that the crystallization properties of these macromolecules were highly dependent on both their monomer sequence and triazole substitution pattern. The results of these studies are reported herein.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, 2017.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 40-42).
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Chemistry.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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