CMSSA

"Chiral Metallopolymers: Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Applications"

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL    more  Organization address address: TYNDALL AVENUE SENATE HOUSE city: BRISTOL postcode: BS8 1TH contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Vince Cognome: Boyle Email: send email Telefono: +44 117 3317575 Fax: +44 117 9250900
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	201˙049 €
EC contributo	201˙049 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF
Funding Scheme	MC-IIF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-08-08   -   2013-08-07

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL  Organization address address: TYNDALL AVENUE SENATE HOUSE city: BRISTOL postcode: BS8 1TH contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Vince Cognome: Boyle Email: send email Telefono: +44 117 3317575 Fax: +44 117 9250900	UK (BRISTOL)	coordinator	201˙049.60

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The creation of chiral molecules and materials is of major current interest and of key importance to pharmacy, biochemistry, and materials science. Recently, metal-containing polymers (metallopolymers) have emerged as highly promising advanced materials due to their potential uses in various fields. However, the chiral characteristics of metallopolymers are virtually unexplored. We propose to create chiral metallopolymers and chiral self-assembled materials with interesting and important properties. Briefly, the work includes the synthesis of chiral polymeric structures, the induction of helical conformations, and fabrication of chiral self-assembled materials. A variety of novel methods, for instance, using chiral coordinative ligands, grafting with chiral polymeric blocks, templated by DNAs and inorganic chiral materials, and uniform deposition of polymeric helices, will be applied to create chiral metallopolymers with chirality on both/either molecular and/or supramolecular level(s). Applications in asymmetric catalysis, chiral recognition and chromatography, and displays are possible. To achieve these exciting objectives, we propose to send an exceptionally talented student, Huibin Qiu, with key expertise in chiral materials from his Ph.D. work in a top group in China (that of Shunai Che), to the research group of Ian Manners at the University of Bristol, a top group in the field of metallopolymers.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

A research group has created a type of complex chemical compound called a chiral metallopolymer for the first time.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Metal-containing polymers, or metallopolymers, are advanced materials comprised of large molecules, and they have widespread and growing applications.

Funded by the EU, the 'Chiral metallopolymers: Synthesis, self-assembly and applications' (CMSSA) project developed a method to introduce chirality to a metallopolymer. Chiral molecules (chemical compounds that have non-superimposable mirror images) have useful chemical and physical properties, but have proven difficult to synthesise.

The novel CMSSA method overcame this difficulty by making use of a compound known as poly(cobaltoceniumethylene). The same compound could also be used to form fibre-like aggregates in certain organic solvents.

Another aspect of the project focused on the self-assembly of polyferrocenylsilane metallopolymers. This research yielded a range of novel self-assembling structures such as chains and 3D networks.

These significant results have made new methods and knowledge in the field of advanced materials science available to other researchers. Applications in complex chemical synthesis, chromatography and next-generation display technology are envisioned for these chiral metallopolymer complexes.