Efficient syntheses of polymerisable pendant arm azamacrocycles and formation of poly(vinylbenzyltriazacyclododecane)
Abstract
Synthetic routes to a number of metal-free triazacyclo-dodecane derivatives featuring the unsymmetrical incorporation of polymerisable pendant side arms such as vinylbenzene and methacrylate have been developed; the structure of a nitrate salt of the vinylbenzene-substituted species has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction and the first polymer-bound triazamacrocycles formed via free-radical polymerisation of a metal-free macrocycle-containing monomer.