Publications by authors named "Cecilia I Alvarez"

Two new water soluble dendronized polymers (PLn) from acrylate Behera amine monomer of different molecular weights were successfully synthesized. The polymers were characterized by FTIR, NMR, GPC and DLS. Both GPC and DLS results indicated that these PLn have a remarkable tendency to form aggregates in solution that lead to apparent molecular weights that are much higher than their theoretical values, as well as large diameters in solution.

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The influence of the morphology of ethylene glycol dimethacrylate-hydroxyethyl methacrylate copolymer [poly(EGDMA-co-HEMA)] base support to obtain different Fe(3+)-containing sorbents and their properties in retention of O-phosphothreonine [Thre(P)] is examined in this paper. Three base supports poly(EGDMA-co-HEMA) (I-III) were obtained using different quantities of initiator in suspension polymerization reactions. These products were submitted to chemical modifications using 1,4-butanediol diglycidyl ether (BDGE) in activation reactions and different chelating agents (iminodiacetic acid, IDA; disodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate, EDTA; and hexamethylenediamine tetrapropanoic acid, HMDTP) in coupling reactions to attain Fe(3+)-containing sorbents.

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