Synthesis of Well-Defined Polyethylene-Based 3-Miktoarm Star Copolymers and Terpolymers
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ArticleKAUST Department
Chemical Science ProgramKAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Polymer Synthesis Laboratory
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2016-03-25Online Publication Date
2016-03-25Print Publication Date
2016-04-12Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/621712
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Novel polyethylene (PE)-based 3-miktoarm star copolymers A2B, (AB)2B and terpolymers (AC)2(BC) [A: PE; B, C: polystyrene (PS) or poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)] were synthesized by combining boron chemistry, polyhomologation, and atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). 1,4-Pentadiene-3-yl 2-bromo-2-methylpropanoate was first synthesized followed by hydroboration with thexylborane to afford B-thexylboracyclanes, a multi-heterofunctional initiator with two initiating sites for polyhomologation and one for ATRP. After polyhomologation of dimethylsulfoxonium methylide the α,ω-dihydroxyl polyethylene (PE-OH)2-Br produced served as macroinitiator for the ATRP of styrene to afford (PE-OH)2-(PS-Br). Both (PE-OH)2-Br and (PE-OH)2-(PS-Br) were transformed to two new trifunctional macroinitiators (PE-Br)2-Br and (PE-Br)2-(PS-Br) through esterification reactions and used for the synthesis of (AB)2B and (AC)2(BC) 3-miktoarm star co/terpolymers. All intermediates and final products were characterized by 1H NMR, high temperature gel permeation chromatography (HT-GPC), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The synthetic method is a general one and can be used for the synthesis of complex PE-based architectures by combination with other living/living-controlled polymerization techniques. © 2016 American Chemical Society.Citation
Zhang Z, Altaher M, Zhang H, Wang D, Hadjichristidis N (2016) Synthesis of Well-Defined Polyethylene-Based 3-Miktoarm Star Copolymers and Terpolymers. Macromolecules 49: 2630–2638. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00291.Sponsors
Research reported in this publication was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Journal
Macromoleculesae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00291