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JOURNAL OF MACROMOLECULAR SCIENCE PART A-PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY
Volume 46, Issue 8, Pages 832-836Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10601320903004749
Keywords
living polymerization; reverse atom transfer radical polymerization; 4-vinylpyridine
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- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [Q2006F05]
- Educational Bureau of Shandong Province [J08LC03]
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In this original experiment, reverse atom transfer radical polymerization technique using CuCl2/hexamethyl tris[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]amine (Me6-TREN) as catalyst complex was applied to living radical polymerization of 4-vinylpyridine (4VP) with azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as initiator. N,N-Dimethylformamide was used as solvent to improve the solubility of the reaction system. The polymerization not only showed the best control of molecular weight and its distribution, but also provided a rather rapid reaction rate with the molar ratio of [4VP]:[AIBN]:[CuCl2]:[Me6-TREN] = 400:1:2:2. The rate of polymerization increased with increasing the polymerization temperature and the apparent activation energy was calculated to be 51.5 kJ center dot mol1. Use of Cl as the halogen in copper halide had many advantages over the use of Br. The resulting poly(4-vinylpyridine) was successfully used as the macroinitiator to proceed the block polymerization of styrene in the presence of CuCl/Me6-TREN catalyst complex via a conventional ATRP process in DMF.
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