Claims
- 1. A substantially linear, biodegradable poly(amino acid) polymer having a polymer backbone structure comprising a plurality of amino acid units of at least one amino acid or a salt thereof and a plurality of derivatized units of at least one derivatized amino acid, said derivatized amino acid containing a substituent group selected from N-hydroxy-amide, N-alkylolamide, N-arylolamide, N-etheramide, N-alkylaminoalkylamide, N-phosphonoalkylamide and N-phosphonoarylamide groups, said polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from about 300 to about 100,000 and containing from about 0.01 to about 50 mol % of said derivatized units.
- 2. A copolymer as defined in claim 1, wherein said amino acid units are selected from aspartic acid, glutamic acid or salts of the foregoing.
- 3. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein said derivatized units comprise derivatized aspartic acid units or derivatized glutamic acid units.
- 4. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein said amino acid units comprise the same amino acid or amino acid salt.
- 5. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the derivatized units comprise the same derivatized amino acid.
- 6. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the derivatized units comprise more than one of said derivatized amino acids.
- 7. A polymer as defined in claim 1, comprising amino acid units of more than one amino acid and derivatized amino acid units of more than one of said derivatized amino acids.
- 8. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the amino acid units comprise aspartic acid and the derivatized units comprise N-hydroxyaspartamide or N-alkyl-N-hydroxyaspartamide.
- 9. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the amino acid units comprise aspartic acid and the derivatized units comprise N-hydroxy-C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 -alkylaspartamide.
- 10. A polymer as defined in claim 1, further comprising one or more than one derivatized amino acid units containing an alkylamide side chain.
- 11. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the amino acid units comprise aspartic acid and the derivatized units comprise N-alkoxyalkylaspartamide or N-alkoxyarylaspartamide units.
- 12. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the amino acid units comprise aspartic acid and the derivatized units comprise N-alkoxyalkylaspartamide.
- 13. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the amino acid units comprise aspartic acid and the derivatized units comprise N-hydroxyalkoxyalkylaspartamide.
- 14. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the amino acid units comprise aspartic acid and the derivatized units comprise N-hydroxyalkylaminoalkylaspartamide.
- 15. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the amino acid units comprise aspartic acid and the derivatized units comprise N-polyetheralkylaspartamide.
- 16. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the amino acid units comprise aspartic acid and the derivatized units comprise N-phosphonoalkylaspartamide or N-phosphonoarylaspartamide.
- 17. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein the amino acid units comprise aspartic acid units and the derivatized units comprise N-(O-sulf)-oxyalkylaspartamide units.
- 18. A substantially linear, biodegradable poly(amino acid) polymer having a polymer backbone structure comprising a plurality of amino acid units of at least one amino acid or a salt thereof and a plurality of derivatized units of at least one derivatized amino acid containing an N-hydroxyamide substituent group, said polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from about 300 to about 100,000 and containing from about 0.01 to about 50 mol % of said derivatized units.
- 19. A substantially linear, biodegradable poly(amino acid) polymer having a polymer backbone structure comprising a plurality of amino acid units of at least one amino acid or a salt thereof and a plurality of derivatized units of at least one derivatized amino acid containing an N-C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 -alkylolamide substituent group, said polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from about 300 to about 100,000 and containing from about 0.01 to about 50 mol % of said derivatized units.
- 20. A substantially linear, biodegradable poly(amino acid) polymer having a polymer backbone structure comprising a plurality of amino acid units of at least one amino acid or a salt thereof and a plurality of derivatized units of at least one derivatized amino acid containing an N-etheramide substituent group, said polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from about 300 to about 100,000 and containing from about 0.01 to about 50 mol % of said derivatized units.
- 21. A substantially linear, biodegradable poly(amino acid) polymer having a polymer backbone structure comprising a plurality of amino acid units of at least one amino acid or a salt thereof and a plurality of derivatized units of at least one derivatized amino acid containing an N-alkylaminoalkylolamide substituent group, said polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from about 300 to about 100,000 and containing from about 0.01 to about 50 mol % of said derivatized units.
- 22. A substantially linear, biodegradable poly(amino acid) polymer having a polymer backbone structure comprising a plurality of amino acid units of at least one amino acid or a salt thereof and a plurality of derivatized units of at least one derivatized amino acid containing an N-phosphono-C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl or aryl-amide substituent group, said polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from about 300 to about 100,000 and containing from about 0.01 to about 50 mol % of said derivatized units.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a Continuation-In-Part of commonly-assigned, applications, Ser. No. 08/683,001, filed Jul. 16, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,776,875; Ser. No. 08/686 616, filed Jul. 19, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,750,070; and Ser. No. 08/717,374, entitled "Biodegradable Aspartic Acid Polymers for Preventing Scale Formation in Boilers", by J. S. Tang, et al., filed on Sep. 20, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,876,623.
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