Controlled polymerization of metal complex monomers - fabricating random copolymers comprising different metal species and nano-colloids

Shigehito Osawa; Sosuke Kurokawa; Hidenori Otsuka

doi:10.1039/d1cc07265j

Controlled polymerization of metal complex monomers - fabricating random copolymers comprising different metal species and nano-colloids

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Apr 26;58(34):5273-5276. doi: 10.1039/d1cc07265j.

Authors

Shigehito Osawa^{1

2}, Sosuke Kurokawa³, Hidenori Otsuka^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Kagurazaka 1-3, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8601, Japan. osawa-s@rs.tus.ac.jp.
² Water Frontier Research Center (WaTUS), Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8601, Japan.
³ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Kagurazaka 1-3, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8601, Japan.

PMID: 35393983
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc07265j

Abstract

Acrylate monomers with metal complexes were designed to build polymer metal complexes. The ideal copolymerization of monomers with zinc and platinum was performed to obtain random copolymers with a feeding metal composition. The successful nano-colloid preparation from the polymers further highlighted the potential of the method for building multimetallic materials.