Abstract
Free radical polymerization has been witnessing a sort of renaissance in terms of syntheticpossibilities with the discovery of methodologies that exhibit the characteristics of trulyliving/controlled processes. These living/controlled free radical systems include atom transferradical polymerization (ATRP), radical addition fragmentation/transfer (RAFT) proceduresand nitroxide-mediated polymerisation (NMP). None of them is universal but recent work onnitroxide-mediated polymerizations of certain vinyl monomers shows that they have thepotential to be implemented at industrial level. A vast range of them can indeed bepolymerized under living/controlled conditions in the presence of purposely designednitroxides and miscellaneous macromolecular architectures, including block copolymers, starsand star block copolymers can be derived by this chemistry.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Living and Controlled Polymerization |
| Subtitle of host publication | Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of the Respective Polymers and Copolymers |
| Publisher | Nova Science Publishers, Inc. |
| Pages | 51-64 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1594543305, 9781594543302 |
| State | Published - 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Block copolymers
- Nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization
- Star polymers
- α-hydrido nitroxides
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry