Book title: Molecular and Ionic Recognition with Imprinted Polymers
Editors: Bartsch RA, Maeda M
Publisher: The American Chemical Society
City: Washington DC
Series title: ACS Symposium Series
Volume number: 703
Abstract: Copolymerization of metal complexes into organic hosts is an effective way of fabricating new materials as is demonstrated by the reversible binding of CO to immobilized Cu(I) complexes in porous methacrylate network polymers. The assembly of the molecular species prior to polymerization is advantageous because of the greater control of the structure and amount of metal complex incorporated into the polymer, the possibility of regulating their microenvironments and the use of these systems as mimics for metalloproteins. The functional properties of these materials can be modified by metal ion substitution as is illustrated by changes in CO binding characteristics of a network polymer that occurs by exchanging Cu(I) ions for Ag(I) ions in the immobilized metal ion sites