WANG Dongrui, ZHU Yu, WANG Xiaogong. SYNTHESIS AND AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR OF AN AMPHIPHILIC BLOCK COPOLYMER WITH STRONG PUSH-PULL AZO CHROMOPHORES ON SIDE CHAINS. [J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica (3):288-292(2009)
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WANG Dongrui, ZHU Yu, WANG Xiaogong. SYNTHESIS AND AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR OF AN AMPHIPHILIC BLOCK COPOLYMER WITH STRONG PUSH-PULL AZO CHROMOPHORES ON SIDE CHAINS. [J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica (3):288-292(2009) DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1105.2009.00288.
SYNTHESIS AND AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR OF AN AMPHIPHILIC BLOCK COPOLYMER WITH STRONG PUSH-PULL AZO CHROMOPHORES ON SIDE CHAINS
An amphiphilic block copolymer functionalized with strong pushpull azobenzene moieties
PEG-b-P6CNAzo
was synthesized through a scheme that combined ATRP and post-polymerization azo-coupling reaction.First
the precursor diblock copolymer
PEG-b-P6MA
containing aniline groups was prepared by a PEGBr initiated ATRP of monomer 6(N-methylanilino)hexyl methacrylate.Then PEG-b-P6CNAzo was obtained through azo-coupling reaction between PEG-b-P6MA and diazonium salt of 4-aminobenzonitrile.The azo block copolymer was carefully characterized by GPC
1H-NMR and UV-Vis.The polymerization degree of PEG-b-P6MA was 122-b-13
which was obtained through 1H-NMR analysis.Due to the high yield of azo-coupling reaction
the polymerization degree of PEG-b-P6CNAzo was also 122-b-13
the same as PEG-b-P6MA.GPC results revealed that both PEG-b-P6MA and PEG-b-P6CNAzo had narrow molecular weight distributions.By adding water under a rate of 0.5 mL/h to its THF solution with the concentration of 0.2 g/L
PEG-b-P6CNAzo formed rod-like micelles with diameter of ca.11 nm obtained by TEM observation.