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CHEMICAL PAPERS
Volume 68, Issue 11, Pages 1555-1560Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.2478/s11696-014-0613-z
Keywords
atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP); living polymerization; methyl metacrylate; SNS ligand; catalyst
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- INSF organization in Iran
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This study is aimed at atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of methyl methacrylate (MMA) using a novel catalyst. The bis-(2-dodecylsulfanyl-ethyl)-amine (SNS) tridentate ligand with mixed donor atoms was synthesized in high purity using inexpensive reagents and was reacted with copper(I) bromide to produce the CuBr/SNS catalyst. The catalyst mediated living polymerization of MMA yielding polymers with controlled molecular masses and narrow molecular mass distributions (PDI < 1.25). Also, the kinetic plot exhibited a linear increase of ln([M](0)/[M]) versus time, indicating constant concentration of propagating radicals during the polymerization. The products were characterized by H-1 NMR, C-13 NMR, FT-IR, UV-VIS, GC and elemental analyses (CHNS) and by GPC.
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