Reactions on Heteroaromatic Polymers with Amine Groups A NMR study on chemical reactions and products of poly(N-vinylimidazole)

Protonation, quatemization and addition reactions of poly(N-vinylimidazole) to the imidazole nitrogen atom in the position 3 to obtain the corresponding ionic derivatives were studied by NMR spectroscopy. Information and data on the reaction type and product microstructure are presented. The chain Malay is a special structure aspect which was in detail studied by means of proton and carbon NMR spectra confirming that the chain configuration is not modified by any of the three polymer-analogous reactions.