| Abstract: | Free-radical polymerizations of methacrylamide derivatives containing nucleic acid bases were studied in the presence of the polymethacrylamide having complementary nucleic acid bases as template polymers. The rate of the polymerization did not show remarkable difference in the presence or the absence of the template polymer. A stable polymer complex, however, was precipitated from the polymerization system, and was found to be different in a thermal analysis from the polymer complex which was obtained by mixing of the complementary polymers in solution. Free-radical copolymerizations in the presence of the template polymers also supported the template polymerization. |
