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POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 10, Issue 31, Pages 4328-4335Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9py00626e
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21774042, 21871107, 21422401]
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Living and controlled polymerization of conjugated polar alkenes including methyl methacrylate (MMA) and polar divinyl monomers such as allyl methacrylate (AMA) and vinyl methacrylate (VMA) has been achieved at room temperature (RT) by Lewis pairs (LPs) using a strong nucleophilic N-heterocyclic olefin (NHO) as a Lewis base (LB) and a sterically encumbered, but modestly strong Lewis acid (LA), MeAl(4-Me-2,6-Bu-t(2)-C6H2O)(2) (MeAl(BHT)(2)). Both classical and frustrated Lewis pairs (LPs) exhibited not only comparable polymerization activity and a high degree of control over the molecular weight (MW) and molecular weight distribution (MWD) of polymers, but also excellent chemoselectivity towards the polymerization of the conjugated acrylic double bond in polar divinyl monomers, leaving the pendant C=C bond unreacted. By strictly controlling the time for the addition of co-monomers, the well-defined diblock copolymers (PMMA-b-PAMA, PAMA-b-PMMA and PAMA-b-PVMA) and triblock copolymers (PMMA-b-PAMA-b-PMMA, PAMA-b-PMMA-b-PAMA and PAMA-b-PVMA-b-PAMA) could be successfully synthesized through the sequential block copolymerization method.
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