| Abstract: | Optically active styrene-methyl methacrylate and styrene-methacrylonitrile copolymers were obtained by template assisted asymmetric copolymerization of 3,4-cyclohexyhdene-D-mannitol-1,2;5,6-bis-O[(4-vinylphenyl)boronate] ( 1 ) with the corresponding comonomers followed by removal of the template and deboronation. By polymer analog modification methods, several optically active functional copolymers were obtained starting with these copolymers. The resulting polymers were subjected to different types of spectroscopic analysis. Thus, the results obtained from IR, 13C-NMR and GPC were of great value for detailed structural analysis of these polymers providing both qualitative and quantitative informations in terms of mode and neatness of substitution and degree of functionalization. The chiroptical measurement results obtained from circular dichroic (CD) studies have been utilized to analyze precisely the substituent dependent local solution stereochemistry of these chiral polymers. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
