Ultrafast phosphazene-promoted controlled anionic polymerization of styrenic monomers
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Ntetsikas, KonstantinosPolymeropoulos, Georgios
Zapsas, Georgios
Bilalis, Panagiotis

Gnanou, Yves

Hadjichristidis, Nikos

KAUST Department
Chemical Science ProgramKAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
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Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Polymer Synthesis Laboratory
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2018-10-29Online Publication Date
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The anionic polymerization of styrenic monomers with phosphazene bases as promoters, utilizing “seeding” technique in a nonpolar solvent and at room temperature was studied. In all experiments, the phosphazene base (t-BuP4, t-BuP2, and t-BuP1) was added in an equimolar amount to the organolithium initiator after the formation of oligomers (2 min) by conventional anionic polymerization. When t-BuP4 was used, the polymerization of styrene and 4-methylstyrene was extremely fast (100 % conversion within 5 min) and the final homopolymers exhibited narrow molecular weight distribution and controlled molecular characteristics. Likewise, when weaker bases were employed, the polymerization was also controlled but showing slower reaction rate. To examine the “livingness” of this system, block copolymers were synthesized by sequential monomer addition. Further studies were conducted in order to extend this novel method to the anionic polymerization of dienes.Citation
Ntetsikas K, Polymeropoulos G, Zapsas G, Bilalis P, Gnanou Y, et al. (2018) Ultrafast phosphazene-promoted controlled anionic polymerization of styrenic monomers. Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 57: 456–464. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.29258.Sponsors
Research reported in this publication was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Publisher
WileyAdditional Links
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pola.29258ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/pola.29258