Cationic polyelectrolytes. I. Soluble polymers prepared from reaction of chloromethylated polystyrene with tris(2-hydroxythyl)amine

The reaction of chloromethylated polystyrene with tris(2-hydroxyethyl)amine in N,N-dimethylformamide is described for the conditions to prepare soluble reaction products. The groups of the quaternary ammonium salt, which appear in the first stage of the reaction, transpose to the amino-ether groups. The reaction was followed by elementary analysis, IR and ¹H-NMR spectra, and viscosimetric measurements for nondialyzed and dialyzed samples. The presence of the tertiary amine groups on obtained polymers was also shown by titration. The polymers from the reaction of chloromethylated polystyrene with tris(2-hydroxyethyl)amine reacted easily with benzyl chloride.