Journal
CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 22, Issue 13, Pages 1264-1284Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/1385272822666180404144327
Keywords
Nitroxide mediated polymerization; styrenics; acrylates; methacrylates; acrylamides; dienes
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- NSERC [288125]
- NSERC CRD [CRDPJ 412508]
- Imperial Oil University Research Award
- NSERC Engage Plus [EGP486006-15]
- Mitacs [IT07390]
- NSERC CRD
- NanoQuebec
- PCAS Canada [CRDPJ 445455]
- TEAMEC Energy Research
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Nitroxide mediated polymerization (NMP) is one of the main reversible de-activation radical polymerization (RDRP) techniques and was one of the earliest discovered. However, other RDRP processes like atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and reversible addition fragmentation transfer polymerization (RAFT) surpassed NMP, as it was largely restricted to styrenic polymerizations. Recently, with second-generation nitroxides, controlled homopolymerizations (predictable degree of polymerization with conversion, high chain end fidelity and narrow molecular weight distributions) of acrylates, acrylamides and dienes are now possible. Methacrylic ester homopolymerizations have remained somewhat elusive with commercially available alkoxyamines, but with a low concentration similar to 1-10 mol% of a controlling co-monomer, methacrylate-rich polymers are accessible. Recent reports have shown promising possibilities for methacrylate homopolymerizations. This review will summarize the progress made in the diversity of monomers polymerizable by NMP and an outlook of the ability of NMP to polymerize new families of monomers or to use under-utilized monomers for emerging applications will be given.
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