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AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 62, Issue 11, Pages 1496-1500Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/CH09398
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-0809832]
- NIH
- Christopher S. Foote Graduate Research Fellowship
- UC LEADS
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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Ionomers containing sodium 4-styrene sulfonate (4SS) and poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate (PEGA) were synthesized by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. The polymerization was mediated by 1-phenylethyl dithiobenzoate chain transfer agent in a dimethylformamide/water solvent system. Well-defined copolymers of pPEGA-co-4SS were produced with molecular weights ranging from 10 to 40 kDa and polydispersity indices of 1.06-1.18 by gel permeation chromatography against monodisperse poly(methyl methacrylate) standards. After polymerization, the dithioester was reduced and trapped in situ with divinyl sulfone to produce a well-defined, semitelechelic pPEGA-co-4SS Michael acceptor polymer. UV-visible, infrared, and H-1 NMR spectroscopy confirmed that the integrity of the polymer backbone was maintained and that the vinyl sulfone was successfully incorporated at the chain end.
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