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Abstract Due to the spread of diseases caused by microbial infections, the development of new antimicrobial agents become urgent matter. To avoid the problems accompaired with the conventional antimicrobial agents. The antimicrobial polymers seems promising solution with new advantages over the conventional ones. The aim of the present study is to introduce, synthesize new antimicrobial polymers to overcome the disadvantages with the molecular weight analuges. The work in this thesis involved the preparation of some natural and synthetic polymers, the chitosan was the start polymer and was modified to increase the amine functionalities in the polymer backbone producing phydroxy benzaldehyde modified chitosan. The work also included the chemical modification of copolymer glycidyl methacrylate -co- 2hydroxy ethyl methacrylate by using chloroacetyl chloride to form active groups. The chloro acetylated derivatives were further modified with triethyl amine, triphenyl phosphine, and tributyl phosphine. Then all prepared polymers were characterized by elemental analysis and IR spectra. |