Synthesis and characterization of curcuminoids and their derived polymeric systems

by Laura Rodríguez from the Functional materials and surfaces (FunNanoSurf) group and the Solid State Chemistry (SSC) group at ICMAB

Date: Friday 22 October 2021
Time: 11:00 am
Venue: MATGAS Seminar Room. Register here to attend by Zoom.

Abstract: Curcuminoids present two aromatic rings joined by a seven-carbon conjugated chain and a β-diketone moiety in the central position. Despite of the number of curcuminoids synthetized until now, and the presence in many of them of functional groups susceptible to react with other species, their used as building blocks for the creation of highly dimensional structures is scarce. This, together with the properties shown by this family of molecules (biomedical, electronic…) and their versatile chemistry, motivated this doctoral thesis.  Nine curcuminoids, including four new ones, were synthetized, and used to form Coordination polymers (CPs) and Organic Polymers (OPs). The variety of structures obtained probe the potential of these molecules to form extended structures and encourage to continue with this topic.

Supervisors:

• Núria Aliaga Alcalde, Functional materials and surfaces (FunNanoSurf) Group
• Concepción Domingo Pascual, Solid State Chemistry (SSC) Group

PhD Committee:

• President: Maria Rosa Aguilar de Armas, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros (ICTP-CSIC)
• Secretary: Mónica Giménez Marqués, Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol)
• Vocal: Silvia Gómez Coca, Instituto de Química Teórica y Computacional (IQTC)

University: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
PhD Programme: Chemistry