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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 50, Issue 3, Pages 822-831Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02358
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- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture [24245026, 26410134, 24750104]
- Mizuho Foundation for the Promotion of Sciences by The Sumitomo Foundation [131302]
- Research Institute for Production Development
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24750104, 26410134] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Amphiphilic gradient copolymers with poly (ethylene glycol) pendants were synthesized via tandem catalysis of ruthenium-catalyzed living radical polymerization (LRP) and titanium alkoxide-mediated transesterification. The gradient sequence can be catalytically controlled by tuning the kinetic balance of the two reactions. The tandem catalysis is one of the most efficient and versatile systems to produce amphiphilic gradient and sequence-controlled copolymers Typically, methyl methacrylate (MMA) was polymerized as a starting monomer with a ruthenium catalyst and a chloride initiator in the presence of Ti(Oi-Pr)(4) and molecular sieves (MS 4A) in poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether (PEG-OH) as a solvent at 80 degrees C. Hydrophobic MMA was concurrently transesterified into hydrophilic PEG methacrylate (PEGMA) during LRP to give MMA/PEGMA gradient copolymers. The gradient sequence is directly determined by the instantaneous monomer composition changing from MMA alone to PEGMA-rich mixture in solution. Synchronized catalysis of LRP and transesterification thus affords gradient copolymers whose composition linearly changes from an initiating terminal to a growing counterpart. Additionally, amphiphilic MMA/PEGMA gradient copolymers showed self-assembly, thermoresponsive, and thermal properties specific to the gradient sequence, distinct from amphiphilic random or block counterparts.
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