Polymers with very low polydispersities from atom transfer radical polymerization

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作者
Patten, TE [1 ]
Xia, JH [1 ]
Abernathy, T [1 ]
Matyjaszewski, K [1 ]
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[1] CARNEGIE MELLON UNIV,DEPT CHEM,PITTSBURGH,PA 15213
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10.1126/science.272.5263.866
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
A radical polymerization process that yields well-defined polymers normally obtained only through anionic polymerizations is reported. Atom transfer radical polymerizations of styrene were conducted with several solubilizing ligands for the copper(l) halides: 4,4'-di-tert-butyl, 4,4'-di-n-heptyl, and 4,4'-di-(5-nonyl)-2,2'-dipyridyl. The resulting polymerizations have all of the characteristics of a living polymerization and displayed linear semilogarithmic kinetic plots, a linear correlation between the number-average molecular weight and the monomer conversion, and low polydispersities (ratio of the weight-average to number-average molecular weights of 1.04 to 1.05). Similar results were obtained for the polymerization of acrylates.
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