Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2004, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (9): 1759.

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Controlled Radical Homopolymerization and Block Copolymerization of Methyl Methacrylate Based on RAFT Process

PAN Jing-Yun, HE Jun-Po, JIANG Hong-Jin, LIU Yang, YANG Yu-Liang   

  1. The Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Ministry of Education, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:2003-05-09 Online:2004-09-24 Published:2004-09-24

Abstract: Methyl methacrylate(MMA) was polymerized by the controlled radical polymerization based on reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer(RAFT) process. The effects of initiator and dithioester concentrations on polymerization rate and polydispersity of the resulted polymers were investigated. A larger initiator concentration increases the polymerization rate but has little influence on the molecular weight which is mainly determined by the concentration of dithoiester. PMMA-block-polystyrene(PMMA-b-PS) and PMMA-block-poly(styrene-co-4-chloromethylstyrene) were synthesized by means of macroinitiator technique, with the latter being spin-labeled by polymer reaction with 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl-1-oxy.

Key words: Controlled free radical polymerization, Reverse addition-fragment chain transfer(RAFT) system, Kinetics, Block copolymer, Spin label

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