Síntese, caracterização e avaliação da capacidade bactericida de copolímeros à base de 2-vinilpiridina funcionalizados

• Autor(a) principal: Valle, Aline Sol da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15663
• topic: Biocidal polymers; styrene-divinylbenzene-vinylpyridine copolymers; wastewater treatment; iodine; impregnation; polímeros biocidas; copolímeros de estireno-divinilbenzeno-vinilpiridina; tratamento de águas; quaternização; iodo; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA

In this work two 2-Vinylpyridine-Styrene-Divinylbenzene copolymers with different porosity degrees were synthesized by aqueous suspension polymerization in the presence of diluent mixtures formed by toluene (solvating solvent) and n-heptane (nonsolvating solvent) in different proportions. Their structural characteristics were characterized by determination of surface area, average pore diameter and pore volume by BET/BJH, bulk density, optical and electron microscopies. In addition the chemical morphology those materials were characterized by FT-IR, elemental analysis and thermogravimetry. The pyridine units were quaternized using two reagents: methyl iodide and acrylonitrile. Those reactions were confirmed by FT-IR, the presence of characteristics bands of piridinium ion and nitrile group was used as a qualitative indication of the quaternizations reactions. The extension of those modifications was also evaluated by thermogravimetry. The antibacterial activities of the quaternized materials were determined towards 103 to 107 cells/mL dilutions of the auxotrophic (OHd5 k-12) Escherichia coli strain. The gel type copolymer quaternized with methyl iodide presented the better bactericidal action, with significant efficiency until 104 cells/mL, however most quaternized copolymers did not present significant bactericidal action. In order to maximize the bactericidal performance, the modified and unmodified copolymers were impregnated with iodine using two different methods: solution and vapor. The iodine incorporation was quantified by gravimetry. It was observed that the copolymers quaternized and impregnated with iodine presented higher biocidal action than the unmodified copolymers impregnated with iodine. It was verified that the biocidal action the polymers is a result of three contributions: porous characteristics of the supports, quaternization degree and iodine incorporation degree. The bactericidal performance of a commercial resin with quaternary ammonium groups, VP OC 1950, was also evaluated. The tests showed that the commercial resin did not present bactericidal efficiency. That resin impregnated with iodine presented bactericidal action similar to gel type copolymer quaternized with methyl iodide and impregnated with iodine.