A novel copper catalyst containing a hydroxyl functional group: a facile strategy to prepare block copolymers of vinyl monomer and epsilon-caprolactone via tandem reverse ATRP and ROP

作者：Liu, Xiao-hui^*; Zhang, Qiu-yan; Di, Wen-li; Zhang, Yan-guang; Ding, Chen

来源：Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 8(32): 4752-4760.

DOI：10.1039/c7py01040k

• MEDIATED RADICAL POLYMERIZATION
• 2-DIMETHYLAMINOETHYL METHACRYLATE
• METHYL-METHACRYLATE
• DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS
• CHAIN TRANSFER
• RAFT
• INITIATOR
• COMBINATION
• COMPLEXES
• PARTICLES

Reverse atom transfer radical polymerization (R-ATRP) and ring-opening polymerization (ROP) are the two representative processes of the most promising living/controlled polymerization techniques. Herein, a facile and stable metal catalyst, Cu(S(S=C)(N-CH3)CH2CH2OH)(2), containing a hydroxyl group was first designed with an aim to prepare block copolymers of vinyl monomer and cyclic ester monomer via a combination of R-ATRP and ROP. The vinyl polymer chain end attached with a hydroxyl functionality obtained from R-ATRP was directly used as a macroinitiator to prepare the block copolymers via ROP of epsilon-caprolactone. H-1 NMR and GPC analyses as well as ROP chain-extension reaction confirmed that the vinyl polymers possessed very high chain end functionality, and the block copolymers of the vinyl monomer and cyclic ester monomer were successfully synthesized.

• 出版日期2017-8-28
• 单位天津工业大学