Issue 9, 2011
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Polymer Chemistry

Nitroxide mediated controlled synthesis of glycidyl methacrylate-rich copolymers enabled by SG1-based alkoxyamines bearing succinimidyl ester groups†

Ali Moayeri,a   Benoit Lessarda  and  Milan Maric*a  

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a Department of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS), McGill Institute of Advanced Materials (MIAM) McGill University, 3610 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
E-mail: milan.maric@mcgill.ca
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Abstract

The controlled nitroxide-mediated copolymerization of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) and styrene (S) with varying GMA molar feed fractions (fGMA,0 = 0.12–0.94) was accomplished by using a SG1-based alkoxyamine initiator bearing a N-succinimidyl ester group (NHS-BlocBuilder) in 50 wt% 1,4-dioxane solution at 90 °C. Copolymerizations indicated linear evolution of number average molecular weight Mn with respect to conversion up to approximately 50% and narrow molecular weight distributions with Mw/Mn = 1.22–1.44 and GMA incorporation into copolymer (FGMA) as high as 0.92. No additional SG1 free nitroxide was required to control polymerizations, even at high fGMA,0. Chain extensions of poly(GMA-ran-S) macroinitiators with S at 110 °C yielded a high fraction of block copolymer in most cases (except at the highest FGMA), as clear, monomodal shifts in Mn using gel permeation chromatography (GPC) were observed, thereby suggesting the poly(GMA-ran-S) macroinitiators were substantially “living”.

Graphical abstract: Nitroxide mediated controlled synthesis of glycidyl methacrylate-rich copolymers enabled by SG1-based alkoxyamines bearing succinimidyl ester groups

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1PY00190F
Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 May 2011
Accepted
25 May 2011
First published
22 Jun 2011

Polym. Chem., 2011,2, 2084-2092

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Nitroxide mediated controlled synthesis of glycidyl methacrylate-rich copolymers enabled by SG1-based alkoxyamines bearing succinimidyl ester groups

A. Moayeri, B. Lessard and M. Maric, Polym. Chem., 2011, 2, 2084 DOI: 10.1039/C1PY00190F

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