Water soluble metal-polymeric complexes of gallium and triple co-polymer of N-vinylpyrrolidone with N-vinylformamide and N-vinylminodiacetic acid
A terpolymer with a molecular weight of 45 kDa containing 7 mol.% of vinylamine units, 80 mol.% of vinylpyrrolidone, and 3 mol.% of vinyliminodiacetic acid units has been synthesized. Its complexation with Ga3+ ion has been studied by HPLC. The resulting metal–polymer complex has been characterized by exclusion chromatography and spectral (IR, 1H NMR) data. The complex has a monomolecular structure where the metal ion acts as an anchor fragment between vinyliminodiacetic acid units and is stable in the reaction of interligand exchange with histidine.