Purification of the obtained polymer:

Purification of the obtained polymer was carried out rigorously as

follows to ensure the removal of the catalyst side product:
1. Dissolved the polymer in de-ionized distilled water to remove

Sample Name:

diacrylate terminated Poly(ethylene glycol)

Sample #: P4781-EG2Acrylate

the any insoluble organic catalyst side product.

2.
3.

Polymer extracted from water with dichloromethane.

Polymer

solution

in

dichloromethane

was

dried

over

anhydrous sodium sulfate.

Structure:
O

4.

Solution filtered and than passed through a column packed

with basic Al2O3 .

O CH2 CH2

O CH2 CH2

Composition:
Mn x 103

PDI

3.4

1.10

5.

Solution concentrated on rota-evaporator

6.

Solution precipitated in cold diethyl ether.

7.

Dried under vacuum for 48h at 38 oC.

SEC of Sample:
P-4781-PEG-2OH Precursor for
acryate end functionalized PEG

Synthesis Procedure:
Synthesis Procedure:
Poly(ethylene glycol) is obtained by living anionic polymerization of
ethylene oxide using di potassium salt of ethylene glycol. The
obtained polymer was reacted with acryloyl chloride in an
appropriate solvent to yield diacrylate terminated
Poly(ethylene glycol).

0.1

Characterization:
By

Size

exclusion

chromatography

(SEC):

Varian

liquid

chromatograph equipped with UV and refractive detector. SEC

columns from Supelco were used with THF

containing 2 vol%
0.0

(Et)3N as the eluent. The molecular weights were determined using

light scattering detector and viscosity detector.

12

14

16

18

20

22

24

26

28

Ve (ml)

The molecular

Size exclusion chromatography of functionalized PEG:

weights and the polydispersity indice were calculated.

Mn=3400 Mw=3750 PI=1.10

H NMR functionality 1.92 (over 95%)

An aqueous GPC column from Supelco(G5000 PWXL) was also

used with 0.5 M acetic acid and 0.8 M NaNO3 as the eluent. It was

HNMR of the product:

P4781

monodisperse

poly(ethylene oxide) standards. The molecular weights and the

polydispersity index of polyethylene oxide were calculated by using

Solubility:
Polymer is soluble in water, methanol and ethanol, THF, CHCl3. It
is precipitated out from cold ethanol, isopropanol, hexane and
ether.

8.0
ppm (t1)

7.0

6.0

5.0

4.0

333.40

2.41

4.00

1.33

Functionality: Functionality of the polymer was determined by H

NMR analysis or FT-IR spectroscopy.

1.35

1.31

a Visual Basic GPC software.

3.434
3.447
3.530
3.548

3.566
3.614
3.670
3.680

3.700
3.712
3.724
3.775
3.787
3.799

4.251

4.270
4.282
4.294

with

5.793

calibrated

5.820
6.085

was

6.110

column

6.128

The

6.154
6.368
6.412

ml/min.

7.260

kept at a constant temperature of 50C. The flow rate was 1.0