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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 134, Issue 17, Pages 7378-7383Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja211315e
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-0907233, CHE-0952134]
- Robert A. Welch Foundation [A-0639]
- NSF-REU [CHE-1062840]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0952134] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0907233] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Pendant groups on polymers that have lower-critical solution temperature (LCST) properties experience a water like environment below the LCST where the polymer is soluble but are less hydrated above the LCST when the polymer phase separates from solution. When these pendant groups are amphoteric groups like carboxylate salts or ammonium salts, the change in solvation that accompanies the polymer precipitation event significantly changes these groups' acidity or basicity. These changes in acidity or basicity can lead to carboxylate salts forming carboxylic acid groups by capturing protons from the bulk solvent or ammonium salts reverting to the neutral amine by release of protons to the bulk solvent, respectively. When polymers like poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) that contain a sufficient loading of such comonomers are dissolved in solutions whose pH is near the pK(a) of the pendant acid or basic group and undergo an LCST event, the LCST event can change the bulk solution pH. These changes are reversible. These effects were visually followed using common indicators with soluble polymers and or by monitoring solution pH as a function of temperature. LCST events triggered by the addition of a kosmotropic salt lead to similar reversible solution pH changes.
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