TY - JOUR AU - Papagiannopoulos, A. AU - Waigh, T. A. AU - Hardingham, T. AU - Heinrich, M. TI - Solution Structure and Dynamics of Cartilage Aggrecan JO - Biomacromolecules VL - 7 SN - 1525-7797 CY - Columbus, Ohio PB - American Chemical Soc. M1 - PreJuSER-56804 SP - 2162 - 2172 PY - 2006 N1 - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012 AB - A versatile atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) method for polysaccharide grafting in homogeneous mild conditions without using protecting group chemistry is presented. Water/DMF mixtures with different compositions were used as the solvent. The "grafting-from" approach was used in order to prepare suitable pullulan and dextran ATRP macroinitiators with a well controlled degree of functionalization. Methacrylate and acrylamide monomers were grafted obtaining good control over the number, molecular weight and polydispersity of the grafted chains without homopolymer formation and polysaccharide degradation. The versatility of this method allowed us to prepare comblike derivatives with a wide range of properties (amphiphilic, ionic, and thermoresponsive) by simply changing the solvent composition and the catalyst. This could make possible the synthesis of new interesting biomaterials starting from a wide range of polysaccharides. KW - Carbohydrate Conformation KW - Free Radicals: chemistry KW - Hydrolysis KW - Kinetics KW - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy KW - Models, Chemical KW - Polysaccharides: chemical synthesis KW - Polysaccharides: chemistry KW - Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared KW - Temperature KW - Free Radicals (NLM Chemicals) KW - Polysaccharides (NLM Chemicals) KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:16827582 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000238848800012 DO - DOI:10.1021/bm0601373 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/56804 ER -