US 11,739,178 B2
Nanohoop-functionalized polymer embodiments and methods of making and using the same
Ramesh Jasti, Eugene, OR (US); Ruth Maust, Eugene, OR (US); and Penghao Li, Evanston, IL (US)
Assigned to University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (US)
Filed by University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (US)
Filed on Sep. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/33,376.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/907,118, filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0095069 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. C08G 61/10 (2006.01); C08J 3/24 (2006.01)
CPC C08G 61/10 (2013.01) [C08J 3/24 (2013.01); C08J 2365/02 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A polymer having a structure according to Formula I

OG Complex Work Unit Chemistry
wherein PB is a polymer backbone; TG is a terminating group; the optional linker is selected from aliphatic, heteroaliphatic, haloaliphatic, haloheteroaliphatic, aromatic, or an organic functional group; the nanohoop comprises six or more aromatic ring systems, wherein each aromatic ring is directly bound to at least two other rings of the nanohoop by two separate single covalent bonds positioned para, ortho, or meta relative to one another, and wherein the nanohoop is not linearly conjugated with the PB; m is an integer ranging from two or greater; and q is an integer selected from 1 or 2.