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Design-Structure-Property Relationships Of Purine-Based Copolymers And Chromophores, Graham Smith Collier
Design-Structure-Property Relationships Of Purine-Based Copolymers And Chromophores, Graham Smith Collier
Doctoral Dissertations
Understanding the relationship between monomer design and polymer properties is imperative for developing polymeric systems that can find applicability in targeted technologies. Purines have been extensively studied across many scientific disciplines and are useful due to the diverse properties they possess, which is due in part to the broad scope of precise synthetic transformations that are used to tailor their properties. The overarching goal of my dissertation involves developing the synthesis of “poly(purine)s” and investigating the effect of purine monomer design on polymer properties. In this vein, poly(purine)s and purine-based donor-acceptor small-molecules are synthesized via Stille cross-coupling reactions with a …