Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (6): 1378.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20190696

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Investigation of Formation Mechanism of Polydopamine by Adding Free Radical Quencher

WANG Qianying,CUI Shuxun*()   

  1. Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
  • Received:2019-12-20 Online:2020-06-10 Published:2020-04-16
  • Contact: Shuxun CUI E-mail:cuishuxun@swjtu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    † National Natural Science Foundation of China(21774102)

Abstract:

In this paper, by using dimethyl sulfoxide(DMSO) and edaravone as the free radical quencher, the free radical polymerization pathways of dopamine under different pH conditions were studied. Besides, the absorbance of the dopamine solutions was characterized by means of UV-Vis spectroscopy. It is found that the dopamine polymerization rate decreases with the increase of the DMSO concentration, indicating that DMSO can slow down the polymerization of dopamine. Further experiments show that edaravone can slow down the polymerization of dopamine more significantly. These results indicate that the free radical polymerization is one of the possible pathways of dopamine polymerization. Although DMSO can slow down the polymerization of dopamine, it cannot completely restrain the polymerization, which indicates that the polymerization has other reaction pathways besides the free radical polymerization. These pathways may be the main reason for the structure complexity of polydopamine. Moreover, it is found that the polymerization rate increases with the increase of pH and the final reaction products under different pH conditions are similar.

Key words: Dopamine, Mechanism of polymerization, Free radical quencher, Free radical polymerization

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