Obtenção e estudo de polímeros supramoleculares derivados de ácidos carboxílicos-meglumina em fase aquosa

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Cassimiro, Douglas Lopes [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Química supramolecular; Polimeros; Ligação de hidrogenio; Equilibrio; Acidos graxos; Balance
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124516

Supramolecular polymers are monomer units held together by intermolecular interactions. The reversible nature of the interactions makes that supramolecular polymer be under thermodynamic conditions with the monomers. Thus the polymer chains undergo reversible breaking and reformation making the supramolecular material highly susceptible to temperature, solvents, pH, mechanical force, radiation and so on. Only a few compounds are able to undergoing supramolecular polymerization, once to obtain high polymerization degrees in bulk or in solution is required a strong and directional intermolecular force. When any type of organic acid is reacted with meglumine occurs the formation of a ionic pair, called carboxilate-meglumine compound. This study shows the amphiphilic carboxilate-meglumine compounds originated from fatty acids, suffer polymerization in aqueous phase by hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen bonds. The monomers adopt a lamellar array that result in a supramolecular polymer which form a tridimensional net where the water is immobilized forming a hydrogel. The relationship between polymerization and the carbonic chain of fatty acid allowed identify that the hydrophilic/hidrophobic is the property that controls the supramolecular polymerization of the carboxilate-meglumine compound in water. To prove that were used the estearic acids (octadecanoic) and oleic acid (9-cis-octadecanoic) that have chains of C18 size; and the saturated acids with distinct chains as underdecanoic (C11) and hexadecanoic (C16). The dynamic behavior of these materials was evaluated, once the intermolecular interactions of supramolecular polymer present a reversible character that is dependent of temperature and concentration. Finally, we studied the potential of stearate-meglumine hydrogel associated with antifungals (ketoconazole and fluconazole), as a strategy for inhibiting biofilm of Candida albicans, the fungus...