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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 48, Issue 10, Pages 2214-2223Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pola.23991
Keywords
click chemistry; living radical polymerization; single electron transfer (SET); star polymers
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In a previous paper, we described the room temperature rapid, selective, reversible, and near quantitative Cu-activated nitroxide radical coupling (NRC) technique to prepare 3-arm polystyrene stars. In this work, we evaluated the Cu-activation mechanism, either conventional atom transfer or single electron transfer (SET), through kinetic simulations. Simulation data showed that one can describe the system by either activation mechanism. We also found through simulations that bimolecular radical termination, regardless of activation mechanism, was extremely low and could be considered negligible in an NRC reaction. Experiments were carried out to form 2- and 3-arm PSTY stars using two ligands, PMDETA and Me6TREN, in a range of solvent conditions by varying the ratio of DMSO to toluene, and over a wide temperature range. The rate of 2- or 3-arm star formation was governed by the choice of solvent and ligand. The combination of Me6TREN and toluene/DMSO showed a relatively temperature independent rate, and remarkably reached near quantitative yields for 2-arm star formation after only 1 min at 25 degrees C. 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 2214-2223, 2010
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