Polyrotaxanes Created by End-capping Polypseudorotaxanes Self-assembled from β-CDs with Distal Azide Terminated PHEMA Using Propargylamine Mono-substituted β-CDs
Abstract
When a distal azide terminated PHEMA underwent the aqueous CuAAC with propargylamine monosubstituted β-CDs (PA-β-CDs), a distal β-CD end-capped PHEMA was invariably generated. However, when it was self-assembled with a varying amount of β-CDs in water followed by the in situ CuAAC with an increasing feed molar ratio of PA-β-CDs, linear polyrotaxanes (PRs) or a mixture of linear and hyperbranched PRs were yielded. Consequently β-CDs enable to self-assemble with an obviously unfitting PHEMA, and those entrapped β-CDs further promote part of PA-β-CDs threaded onto the main axle to give hyperbranched PRs after the click reaction.