Nitrocatecholic copolymers - synthesis and their remarkable binding affinity

Shenjie Qiu; Jianqin Zhuang; Shi Jin; Nan-Loh Yang

doi:10.1039/c9cc04425f

Nitrocatecholic copolymers - synthesis and their remarkable binding affinity

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Sep 16;55(72):10748-10751. doi: 10.1039/c9cc04425f. Epub 2019 Aug 21.

Authors

Shenjie Qiu¹, Jianqin Zhuang², Shi Jin¹, Nan-Loh Yang¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and The Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA. nanloh.yang-cepm@csi.cuny.edu and PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA.
² Department of Chemistry and The Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA. nanloh.yang-cepm@csi.cuny.edu.

PMID: 31432812
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc04425f

Abstract

Nitrocatecholic random copolymers were obtained from nitration of protected catechol-N-isopropylacrylamide copolymers. Incorporation of 5% nitrocatecholic counits can lead to remarkable enhancement of the binding affinity toward Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles and an organic boronic acid by a factor of 40 and 20, respectively.