Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2005, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (8): 1544.

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Synthesis of Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymer Poly(L-alanine)-b-poly(hydroxyethyl glutamine) and Its Self-assembly in Water

LI Li-Ying1, SUN Ping-Chuan1, YAO Yang1, CHEN Tie-Hong1, LI Bao-Hui2, JIN Qing-Hua2, DING Da-Tong2   

  1. 1. Department of Chemistry,
    2. Department of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • Received:2004-09-14 Online:2005-08-10 Published:2005-08-10

Abstract: Two kinds of amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides γ-benzyl-glutamate N-carboxyanhydride(GluB-NCA), and L-alanine N-carboxyanhydride(Ala-NCA) were synthesized according to phosgene method(Fuchs-Farthing method). Poly(L-alanine)-block-poly(γ-benzyl-glutamate)(PLA-b-PBLG) AB diblock copolypeptide was synthesized by ring opening polymerization of Ala-NCA and GluB-NCA, with triethylamine as the initiator. The poly(L-alanine)-b-poly(hydroxyethyl glutamine)(PLA-b-PHEGA) diblock copolypeptide was obtained by reacting the PLA-b-PBLG diblock copolypeptide with ethanolamine to improve the hydrophilicity of PBLG block. The structure of the product was characterized by means of FTIR and 1HNMR. The aggregation morphologies of the PLA-b-PHEGA diblock copolypeptide in aqueous solution were observed by TEM. It was found that the diblock copolypeptide could be self-assembled to form vesicles in water.

Key words: Poly(γ-benzyl-glutamate), Poly(L-alanine), Block copolymer, Self-assembly

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