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ArticleKAUST Department
Chemical Science ProgramKAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Polymer Synthesis Laboratory
Date
2014-01Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/575702
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In the recent surge of metal-free polymerization techniques, phosphazene bases have shown their remarkable potential as organic promoters/catalysts for the anionic polymerization of various types of monomers. By complexation with the counterion (e.g. proton or lithium cation), phosphazene base significantly improve the nucleophilicity of the initiator/chain-end resulting in rapid and usually controlled anionic/quasi-anionic polymerization. In this review, we will introduce the general mechanism, i.e. in situ activation (of initiating sites) and polymerization, and summarize the applications of such a mechanism on macromolecular engineering toward functionalized polymers, block copolymers and complex macromolecular architectures.Citation
Zhao, J., Hadjichristidis, N., & Gnanou, Y. (2014). Phosphazene-promoted anionic polymerization. Polimery, 59(01), 49–59. doi:10.14314/polimery.2014.049Journal
Polimeryae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.14314/polimery.2014.049