121st General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Organic Chemistry
Room No. Event Hall
Time 4월 19일 (목요일) 11:00~12:30
Code ORGN.P-391
Subject study of structure-property relationship of melanin-like polymers
Authors IN KYU KIM, KYUNGTAE KANG1,*
Applied chemistry, Kyung Hee University, Korea
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Abstract 5,6-dihydroxyindole(DHI) and 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid(DHICA) are two canonical monomers of melanin polymers. DHICA a carboxyl group is attached to the carbon Ⅱ position of DHI. Synthetic DHICA eumelanin is a more efficient free-radical scavenger than DHI eumelanin, and shows atypical optical, paramagnetic, and aggregation properties in the solid state, which is due to the interrupted π-electron network in its supramolecular structure. To investigate the effect of carboxyl groups on the materials properties of supramolecular melanin derivatives, we chemically synthesized DHICA and its derivatives to examine their structural and functional characteristics.
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