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POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 406-417Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4py01066c
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- University of Warwick
- Advantage West Midlands (AWM)
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
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Aqueous single electron transfer living radical polymerization (SET-LRP) has been employed to synthesize multi-block homopolymers and copolymers of a range of acrylamide monomers including N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM), 2-hydroxyethyl acrylamide (HEAA), N, N-dimethyl- acrylamide (DMA) and N, N-diethylacrylamide (DEA). Disproportionation of Cu(I) Br in the presence of Me6TREN in water was exploited to generate reactive Cu(0) and [CuII(Me6TREN)] Br-2 in situ resulting in unprecedented rates of reaction whilst maintaining control over chain lengths and molecular weight distributions (D < 1.10). Kinetic studies enabled optimization of iterative chain extensions or block copolymerizations furnishing complex compositions in a matter of minutes/ hours. In the multi-block copolymer system, the monomer sequence was successfully varied and limiting effects on the polymerization have been comprehensively examined through a series of control experiments which imply that the rate of.-Br chain end loss is enhanced in tertiary acrylamides (DMA, DEA, N-acryloylmorpholine NAM) relative to secondary acrylamides (NIPAM, HEAA).
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