Study on thermal, spectroscopic and electrochemical behavior of some ferrocene-containing organometallic polyesteramides and their siloxane-based block copolymers

The thermal, spectroscopic and electrochemical behavior of some novel ferrocene-containing polyesteramides and their siloxane-based block copolymers are described in the present study. The thermal properties of the organometallic materials were investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and compared with their terephthaloyl- and isophthaloyl-based organic analogues. The energies of activation of pyrolysis for the polymeric materials were calculated using Horowitz and Metzger method. The spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of the organometallic polymeric materials were examined by means of UV-visible (UV) and cyclic voltammetric (CV) studies. The interactions of these materials with ds.DNA (extracted from chicken blood) were also investigated.