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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 41, Issue 24, Pages 9542-9547Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma8019656
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- Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award
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A range of well-defined hydrophilic methacrylic macromonomers has been synthesized by the judicious combination of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (azide-alkyne click chemistry). An azido alpha-functionalized ATRP initiator was used to produce well-defined homopolymers with terminal azide functionality via ATRP in protic media at 20 degrees C, with generally good control being achieved over both target molecular weight and final polydispersity (M-w/M-n = 1.10-1.35). Suitable methacrylic monomers include 2-aminoethyl methacrylate hydrochloride, 2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate, 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate, 2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl phosphorylcholine, glycerol monomethacrylate, potassium 3-sulfopropyl methacrylate, and quaternized 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate. These homopolymer precursors were then efficiently clicked using either propargyl methacrylate or propargyl acrylate to yield near-monodisperse (meth)acrylate-capped macromonomers with either cationic, anionic, nonionic, or zwitterionic character. Moreover, this generic route to well-defined hydrophilic macromonomers is also suitable for one-pot syntheses, as exemplified for 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate and glycerol monomethacrylate-based macromonomers.
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