ZHANG Jun, LI Huayi, ZHANG Liaoyun, HU Youliang. ELIMINATION OF GELATINIZATION USING MIXTURE OF SOLVENTS IN THE ATRP REACTION TO SYNTHESIZE MULTI ARM STAR POLYMERS. [J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica (7):937-941(2010)
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ZHANG Jun, LI Huayi, ZHANG Liaoyun, HU Youliang. ELIMINATION OF GELATINIZATION USING MIXTURE OF SOLVENTS IN THE ATRP REACTION TO SYNTHESIZE MULTI ARM STAR POLYMERS. [J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica (7):937-941(2010) DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1105.2010.09421.
ELIMINATION OF GELATINIZATION USING MIXTURE OF SOLVENTS IN THE ATRP REACTION TO SYNTHESIZE MULTI ARM STAR POLYMERS
Hyperbranched polystyrene synthesized by the copolymerization of styrene and p-chloromethyl styrene was used as initiator to initiate the ATRP reactions of styrene and methyl methacrylate with CuCl/ pentamethyldiethylenetriamine as catalysts.The reaction dynamics were studied.It was found that the ATRP the reaction gelatinized easily in good solvent chlorobenzene.The monomer conversions before gelation were small.If poor solvent 1
4-dioxane was added in chlorobenzene before gelation
the gelatinization reactions could be eliminated efficiently.The monomer conversions could reach to high values and muti-arm star polymers with high molecular weight about a million were synthesized.This is new method to prepare multi-arm star polymers with high molecular weight.