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| Author(s): |
Maria Fernanda Baptista Munhoz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Conjunto das Químicas (IQ e FCF) (CQ/DBDCQ) |
| Defense date: | 2009-03-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Frank Herbert Quina;
Luiz Henrique Catalani;
Luis Gustavo Dias;
Marcelo Henrique Gehlen;
Miguel Guillermo Neumann
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| Advisor: | Frank Herbert Quina |
| Abstract | |
Polysoaps are polymers consisting of amphiphilic monomeric units. In aqueous medium, the polysoaps form intra- or inter-polymeric microdomains capable to mimicking many of the properties of micelles, such as solubilization of organic molecules, exchanging counter-ions and catalyzing chemical reactions. The polysoaps used in our studies were [n, m]-ionenes, whose chemical structure consists of dimethylammoniun groups interconnected by aliphatic chain segments. [-(CH2)n-+N(CH3)2-(CH2)m-+N(CH3)2-]x Br- Br-[n,m]-Ioneno. In aqueous solution, [n, m]-ionenes with short methylenic segments, for example [3,10]-ionene, adopt an extended or rodlike conformations. In contrast, ionenes with longer segments, as the [3,22]-ionene, prefer globular conformations, forming microdomains through a process of intra-polymeric aggregation of the long segments. Because the ionenes are polymers, they can be immobilized on solid supports by covalent or electrostatic adsorption. The objective of this work was to develop new strategies for the efficient covalent immobilization of ionenes on solid supports. Ionenes can be selectively and quantitatively dequaternized (demethylated), forming the corresponding poly(tertiary amine): [-(CH2)n-+N(CH3)2-(CH2)m-+N(CH3)2-]x → [-(CH2)n-N(CH3)-(CH2)m-N(CH3)-]x. Unlike the ionene, the poly(tertiary amine) is soluble in organic medium, does not adsorb onto surfaces and possesses numerous reactive groups (the tertiary amines) distributed throughout the polymer chain. Suitable for immobilization of poly(tertiary amine) on silica funcionalizada with chloropropyl groups. The requaternization was performed with alkyl halides with distinct chain lengths (e.g., ethyl bromide or dodecyl bromide) and with 1,3-propanosultone (yielding zwitterionic ionenes with amoniopropane-sulfonate groups). The fluorescence (maximum wavelength and emission) of 4-amino-1-naphthalene sulfonic acid (AMS) was useful for the detection of the presence of microdomains formed by the immobilized ionenes on silica. The intensity ratio of the I/III vibrational bands of the fluorescence of pyrene dissolved in the microdomains was used to infer the residual degree of contact between pyrene and water at surface of the microdomains. \"The catalytic\" properties of the immobilized ionenes was invetigated by measuring the rate of alkaline hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl octanoate (NPO) and of the N-dodecyl-4-cyanopyridinium ion (DCP). The thickness of the layer formed by the immobilized ionenes in the presence of water was measured experimentally ex-situ and in-situ by ellipsometry. Finally, some HPLC tests using silica functionalized with ionenes as the stationary phase were made in order to evaluate thesis applicability. (AU) | |