INTEC   05402
INSTITUTO DE DESARROLLO TECNOLOGICO PARA LA INDUSTRIA QUIMICA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
FT-IR Study and Chemometric Analysis of Photoinduced Crosslinking in Thymine Copolymers
Autor/es:
K. MCDONOUGH; S. BORTOLATO; K. THOMAS; N. LEE; R. W. GURNEY; D.M. MARTINO
Lugar:
San Diego
Reunión:
Congreso; 243rd ACS National Meeting & Exposition; 2012
Institución organizadora:
ACS
Resumen:
The
photo-induced immobilization of 4-vinylbenzyl thymine (VBT) and 4-vinylbenzyl triethyl
ammonium chloride (VBA) copolymers has been investigated with the aid of grazing-angle
specular-reflectance FT-IR. As irradiation time increases, changes in the
structure of pendant thymine groups in the copolymer due to the crosslinking
process result in shifts of the copolymer networks vibrational frequencies, as
well as changes in numerous IR band intensities. In this work, chemometric
(multivariate resolution) methods have been applied to the FTIR data obtained
while monitoring the time evolution of curing of VBT:VBA copolymers of varying
composition. The spectral data obtained with FT-IR normally provide information
only about the degree of conversion of the reactants in the final product but there is no knowledge about how many
compounds are involved or how they evolve over time. The use of the so-called
Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS) allows the
sequentially estimation of the contribution to the signal due to the
different species in the matrix data.