CONTROLLED MOLECULAR WEIGHT AMINO ACID POLYMERS HAVING FUNCTIONALIZABLE BACKBONES AND END GROUPS AND PROCESSES FOR PREPARING THE SAME
申请人:Scholz Carmen
公开号:US20090131589A1
公开(公告)日:2009-05-21
The present disclosure relates to processes for preparing metal-free, mono-dispersed polymers of amino acids. The polymers include homopolymers, random copolypeptides, block copolypeptides, block copolymers with at least one peptidyl block, grafted copolypeptides, and polypetidyl dendrimers. The disclosed process does not make use of a heavy metal catalyst, inter alia, copper or nickel containing reagents. The disclosed process encompasses a “living polymerization” such that the growth of each polymer chain is not truncated or otherwise halted by undesirable side reactions or limitations due to the length or size of the growing polymer chain, provides amino acid comprising polymers having a narrow polydispersity, is conducted at lower temperatures, and avoids the premature secondary folding that inhibits the formation of polymers having a low polydispersity index. This abstract is intended to provide key words and search terms for use in searching patent and patent application data bases and is not intended to limit the subject matter of the disclosure.
本公开涉及制备无金属、单分散氨基酸聚合物的工艺。所述聚合物包括同聚物、随机共聚肽、嵌段共聚肽、至少具有一个肽基块的嵌段共聚物、接枝共聚肽和聚肽树状体。所述工艺不使用重金属催化剂,包括铜或镍含量试剂等。所述工艺包括“活性聚合”,使得每个聚合物链的生长不受不良副反应或由于聚合物链的长度或大小而受到限制的截断,提供具有狭窄聚集度的氨基酸聚合物,以较低的温度进行,并避免抑制具有低聚集度指数的聚合物形成的过早二级折叠。本摘要旨在提供用于搜索专利和专利申请数据库的关键词和搜索术语,不旨在限制本公开的主题。