Fructose-sensitive thermal transition behaviour of boronic ester-bearing telechelic poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline)

Jiyoung Lee; Jong Min Park; Woo-Dong Jang

doi:10.1039/c8cc09835b

Fructose-sensitive thermal transition behaviour of boronic ester-bearing telechelic poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline)

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Mar 14;55(23):3343-3346. doi: 10.1039/c8cc09835b.

Authors

Jiyoung Lee¹, Jong Min Park, Woo-Dong Jang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea. [email protected].

PMID: 30815645
DOI: 10.1039/c8cc09835b

Abstract

Boronic ester-bearing telechelic poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline) (B-PiPrOx-B) exhibited a hydrophilic-hydrophobic phase transition near human-body temperature in aqueous media. The thermal transition temperature of B-PiPrOx-B changed notably upon addition of fructose.