SYNTHESIS AND INVESTIGATION OF COPOLYMERS OF GLYCIDYLMETHACRYLATE AND COPPER COMPLEX METHYL PHEOPHORBIDE “A” IN SOLUTION

Abstract

The actual direction in the field of creating new functional materials is a complex study of the influence of tetrapyrrole macroheterocyclic compounds on the processes of radical (co)polymerization with widely used monomers, as well as the development of a general approach to the synthesis and study of the properties of such polymer materials. Promising macroheterocyclic compounds are chlorophyll derivatives of various structures. For this purpose, by the method of solution radical copolymerization in toluene and tetrahydrofuran the copolymers of glycidylmethacrylate and copper complex of methylpheophorbide “a” of various compositions were obtained. Identification of the obtained copolymers and investigation of their structure and properties were performed using data from IR, NMR spectroscopy of compounds, elemental and chemical analysis methods. The synthesized copolymers are characterized by molecular-weight characteristics which were determined by gel-permeation chromatography. It was found that the introduction of a copper complex of methylpheophorbide “a” into the copolymer leads to a decrease in the copolymerization rate, the values of the molecular masses of copolymers and an increase in their polydispersity. The effect of solvents on the time of the copolymerization process and the molecular weight characteristics of copolymers is shown. The composition of the obtained copolymers was determined spectrophotometrically by the optical density of their solutions at the maximum of the first absorption band of the copper complex of methylfeoforbide “a”. Comparison of the intensity of bands in the IR spectra of copolymers of different compositions showed that the content of methylpheophorbid links in the polymer chain increases with the increase in the content of porphyrin in the polymerized mixture. The study of the influence of the nature of the solvent and its structural features on chemical reactions involving porphyrin derivatives allowed us to establish that from a thermodynamic point of view, the best solvent for porphyrinpolymers is toluene.