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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 35, Issue 22, Pages 8300-8306Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma0203445
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The reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) bulk polymerization of a fast propagating monomer (methyl acrylate, MA) has been studied using I-phenylethyl dithiobenzoate (1-PEDB) and 2-(2-cyanopropyl) dithiobenzoate (CPDB) as RAFT agents at 60 degreesC. Rate retardation with increasing initial RAFT agent concentrations is common to both 1-PEDB- and CPDB-mediated MA polymerizations and occurs in comparable magnitude. A pronounced inhibition period is observed in 1-PEDB-mediated MA polymerizations, whereas the corresponding CPDB-mediated polymerizations show considerably less inhibition. The cause for this inhibition may either be associated with the leaving group of the initial RAFT agent or with the slow fragmentation of the initial intermediate macroRAFT radical. The present experimental. data suggest that slow fragmentation is the probable cause for inhibition. We conclude that the radical intermediate formed by addition of radicals to the initial RAFT agent is different instability than the macroRAFT radical formed analogously from macroRAFT agent. The inhibition period is effectively reduced by the use of CPDB as the initial RAFT agent in methyl acrylate polymerizations.
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