The PLA standards used in this
investigation were purchased from PSS Polymer Standards Service GmbH,
now part of Agilent Technologies (Mainz, Germany). The molar mass
information of all the standards based on universal calibration and
the putative stereochemistry defined by the supplier is provided in
Table 1. The eluents, amylene-stabilized
chloroform (TCM) and
hexane (HEX) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich.
The
isopropanol,
tetrahydrofuran (THF), and ethanol-stabilized TCM
were obtained from Fisher Scientific, TH. GEYER, and VWR International,
respectively, and were all HPLC grade and were used as received.
For NMR analysis,
deuterated chloroform (Deutero GmbH) was used, while
the
trans-2-[3-(4-
tert-butylphenyl)-2-methyl-2-propenylidene]
malononitrile (DCTB) and
sodium trifluoroacetate (NaTFA) used as the
matrix and ionizing agent in MALDI experiments, respectively, were
purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. MS calibration standards PMMA fleXstandard
were obtained from Bruker Daltonics and SpheriCal Neat Protein Medium
from Polymer Factory.
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