Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2000, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (6): 976.

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Fluorescence Spectra of Pyrene Labeled Polyelectrolytes with Sulfonate Groups in Water and DMSO

GAO Feng, YAN Yu, REN Bi-Ye, TONG Zhen   

  1. Research Institute of Materials Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
  • Received:1999-07-07 Online:2000-06-24 Published:2000-06-24

Abstract: Pyrenylmethyl methacrylamide(PyMA) was synthesized, and applied to copolymerizing with AMPSand DMAAto get a series of pyrene labeled polymers with sulfonate groups. The molar fraction of sulfonate monomer AMPSin these samples varies from 0.0326 to 0.896 . In DMSOand water, the profile of fluorescence spectrum of pyrene labeled polyelectrolytes is analogous to that of PyMAwhen FAMPS < 0.449, while the [0,1] emission peak abruptly increased as FAMPS ≥0.449. The so called polarity scale of pyrene, I1/ I3 of pyrene labeled polyelectrolytes in DMSOand in water decreases gradually with increasing FAMPSrepresenting the charge density of the samples. I1/ I3 also decreases gradually with the increase in polymer concentration in water. The results imply that there exists the hydrophobic aggregation through locally electrostatic attraction even in polyelectrolyte/polar solvent system, in contrast to the traditional polyelectrolyte theory. However, I1/ I3 of these polyelectrolytes remains almost a constant with increasing NaCl concentration of aqueous solution up to 0.75 mol/L, indicating the electrostatic attraction cannot be simply screened.

Key words: Polyelectrolyte, Fluorescence spectrum, Pyrene, Micropolarity

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