Antimicrobial polymers

US8153739B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• University of Massachusetts · US

Inventors

• Gregory N. Tew · Amherst, US
• Ahmad E. Madkour · Leverett, US
• Karen Lienkamp · Frankfurt, DE
• Ashlan Marie Musante · Madison, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 8, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 10, 2012
• Expiry date: Jun 8, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D491/107
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention generally relates to novel polymers (SMAMPs) and their syntheses and use. The polymers exhibit promising properties of AMPs. In particularly, for example, a ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) platform was developed that allows syntheses of SMAMPs that employ a minimum number of norbornene-based building blocks and/or enable easy and independent variation of hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups in the monomer units and/or along the polymeric backbone to finetune and select desirable properties of the polymers.