Patent ID: 6403705
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: C08G

Abstract:
A molecular rod comprising a structure represented by general formula I: wherein:P is a polyphenylene, polyphenylenevinylene, polyphenyleneethynylene or polyvinylene polymer comprising at least one of the following structures: wherein * indicates a bond to GpF and A is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, alkyl, OH, O-alkyl, NH2, NH-alkyl, CO2H, CO2-alkyl, CONH2, and CONH-alkyl;GpF comprises elements B and R, in which: B is a group comprising a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic C1-C10 hydrocarbon, a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic C1-C10 hydrocarbon that is substituted by an alkyl group, a polyoxyethylene unit, or a polyoxyethylene unit that has an internal phosphate group and R is selected from the group consisting of a positively- or negatively-charged hydrophilic group, a ligand or an analogue of a biological macromolecule, and an organometallic complex that interacts with an amino acid or a nucleic acid, E is a phenylene, ethynylene or vinylene unit or a combination of these units, p is an integer between 0 and 10 and n is an integer between 5 and 1000.