自由基聚合近20年的发展

自由基聚合是在上世纪50年代发展起来的,已成为工业生产高分子产品的重要技术。自由基聚合由通用自由基聚合而发展为今天的活性/控制自由基聚合,是近20多年的事情。通用自由基合的研究主要是高活性引发剂、氧化还原体系及多功能引发体系,ESR和激光技术在动力学和自由基精细结构测定的应用等。而活性自由基聚合由最初的引发转移终止剂活性自由基聚合(iniferter),演变为氮氧自由基调控聚合(NMP)或稳定自由基聚合(SFRP),原子转移自由基聚合(ATRP),茂钛金属/环氧化物自由基开环引发聚合,可逆加成断裂链转移(RAFT)聚合,碘转移自由基聚合和有机碲、有机锑调控聚合等活性/控制自由基聚合。本文就以上各方面的研究进展进行简要的综述。     

活性聚合、表观活性聚合和准活性聚合

活性聚合是连锁聚合反应体系中链转移和终止反应速率为零时的特殊反应类型,表现活性聚合和准活性聚合则是链转移或终止反应未被完全消除而又具有活性聚合特征的两类聚合反应,是非活性聚合向活性聚合过渡和逼近时的两种聚合反应类型。本文对活性聚合、表观活性聚合和准活性聚合的基本概念及它们之间的区别作了简单的介绍。     

溶剂对等离子体引发的衰减链转移接枝聚合动力学的影响

采用等离子体引发的衰减链转移(DT)接枝聚合法,以丙烯酸(AA)为单体,碘仿为链转移剂,对聚丙烯(PP)薄膜进行表面改性。研究了水和N,N-二甲基甲酰胺(DMF)对等离子体引发聚合及等离子体引发DT聚合动力学的影响。结果表明,采用等离子体引发的方法可以实现DT可控-活性聚合,DMF介质中的可控性优于水介质,等离子体引发DT聚合的溶剂效应明显减弱,接枝量与转化率成正比关系并与FT-IR、接触角的表征结果相符。     

活性聚合,表现活性聚合和准活性聚合

活性聚合是连锁聚合反应体系中链转移和终止反应速率为零时的特殊反应类型，表现活性聚合和准活性聚合则是链转移或终止反应未被完全消除而人有活性聚合物特征两类聚合物反应，是非活性聚合活性聚合过渡和逼近时的两种聚合反应类型，本文对活性聚合，表现活性聚合和准活性聚合的基本概念及它们之间的区别作了简单的介绍。     

生物医用材料表面光引发活性接枝聚合研究新进展

表面接枝聚合改性已经成为提升生物医用材料性能的最重要方法之一.参比其他活性接枝聚合方法,光引发活性接枝聚合因其独特的优势已被越来越广泛地应用于生物医用材料表面改性.根据光引发剂的类型,目前应用最多的光引发活性接枝聚合的引发体系主要有3种:光引发-转移-终止剂介导的聚合引发体系、二苯甲酮及其衍生物引发体系、硫杂蒽酮类引发体系.本文首先简要介绍了上述3种光引发活性接枝聚合体系的发展历程、接枝机理以及特点.同时结合本课题组相关研究工作,重点论述了光引发接枝聚合技术在3个不同生物医用领域的主要应用:(1)抗菌表面,利用光活性接枝的特点构建层状功能高分子刷,实现表面抗菌功能的阶段性需求.(2)免疫检测表面,使用光活性接枝方法构建层状功能高分子刷,解决检测灵敏度低以及蛋白干扰问题.(3)生物活性分子表面固定,利用可见光活性接枝聚合体系,实现酶在表面的固定化使用以及细胞表面修饰以提高细胞稳定性.最后展望了生物医用材料表面光引发活性接枝聚合研究的发展趋势.     

一种新的活性自由基聚合:单电子转移-活性自由基聚合

介绍了一种新的活性自由基聚合-单电子转移活性自由基聚合(SET-LRP)。SET-LRP的机理是基于Cu(I)在某些溶剂中的歧化反应和Cu(0)通过外层电子转移(OSET)使引发剂R-X生成自由基离子[R-X].-,自由基离子通过异裂生成自由基R.,从而引发单体进行聚合。讨论了引发剂、催化剂、溶剂和配体对SET-LRP的影响。通过与原子转移自由基聚合(ATRP)的对比,表明用于ATRP的引发剂也能广泛应用于SET-LRP,而用于SET-LRP的配体必须是能使络合物高度不稳定、能够使Cu(I)迅速发生歧化反应的配体;通过比较还显示出SET-LRP巨大的优越性:单体适应范围广、反应速率快、反应条件简单、催化剂容易脱除、反应产物没有颜色变化。总之,SET-LRP将有其广阔的应用前景。     

吡啶类试剂调节H_2O/TiCl_4引发苯乙烯正离子聚合研究

1988年,Kennedy等[1~3]首先实现了由BCl3共引发的苯乙烯(St)及其衍生物活性正离子聚合,但所得到聚合产物的分子量分布宽(Mw/Mn=5~6).苯乙烯活性正离子聚合的共引发剂由BCl3扩展到SnCl4、TiCl4[4~7]和TiCl3(OiPr).对于TiCl4共引发的St活性正离子聚合,所用引发剂为2,4,4-三甲基-2     

有机硫化物用于自由基活性/可控聚合

综述了有机硫化物用于自由基活性聚合的研究进展，对其机理和活性特征进行了简要的讨论。有机硫化物用于自由基活性聚合的研究工作可以追溯到上个世纪80年代，N，N－二乙基二硫代氨基甲酸酯用作光引发一转移－终止剂（Iniferter)，其聚合具有一定的活性特征，但分子量分布较宽，以二硫代羰酸酯和三硫代碳酸酯为链转移剂的可逆加成裂解链转移（RAFT）自由基聚合的发现，在活性自由基聚合领域是一个重要突破，用二硫代羰酸和三硫代碳酸酯作转移剂，在60Co γ-射线辐照下实现了St,AA,MA和MMA等单体的活性自由基聚合，是硫化物用于自由基活性聚合的又一新的进展。     

有机非金属盐阴离子聚合研究进展

有机非金属盐阴离子聚合是活性/可控阴离子聚合的一个重要分支。有机非金属盐阴离子聚合方法最大的特点是可以在很宽的温度范围内(-20~70℃)引发(甲基)丙烯酸酯类单体聚合,分子量分布窄,显示出可控/活性的特征。该聚合方法为分子设计和合成(甲基)丙烯酸烷基酯的均聚物、嵌段聚合物、接枝聚合物和功能性聚合物提供了有效的途径。本文综述了有机非金属盐阴离子引发剂在合成(甲基)丙烯酸酯类单体中的研究进展,包括聚合的反应机理、特点、研究现状及其前景展望。     

阳离子聚合的进展

首先介绍了阳离子聚合的简史,由于阳离子高活性的特点使其发展较慢,阳离子聚合研究的突破来自对引发反应的深入理解,而近代阳离子聚合的要点则在于使链引发、链增长和链终止成为可控。阳离子聚合的进展密切与大分子工程相关。本文对活性阳郭聚合做了较详细的讨论。并举遥爪聚人事物及嵌段聚合物的研究成就。最后,提出了阳离子聚合是发展中的问题供参考。     

New Perspectives in Living/Controlled Anionic Polymerization

Summary: Control of the reactivity and selectivity of active species remains a major challenge in the course of living/controlled polymerizations of vinyl and heterocyclic monomers. We have found that alkyl metal derivatives such as dialkylmagnesium or trialkylaluminum derivatives or the corresponding alkoxyakyl metal derivatives, when added to conventional anionic polymerization systems, are very effective mediators for the controlled anionic polymerization of both styrenic and oxirane monomers. When used as additives to alkali metal alkyl initiators (alkyl lithium, alkyl sodium) for the styrene anionic polymerizations, they strongly retard the reactivity of the propagating species and allow controlling the polymerization in very unusual conditions (bulk, very high temperature). On the contrary, when used in combination to the same alkali metal based initiators for the anionic polymerization of ethylene oxide or propylene oxide, these additives can drastically enhance the reactivity and the selectivity of the propagating species allowing a fast living-like polymerization to proceed already at low temperature in hydrocarbon media.     

可控自由基聚合与其它活性聚合方法结合制备嵌段共聚物

可控自由基聚合与其它聚合方法结合，可以制备多种类型的嵌段共聚物，因此得到了广泛关注。本文着重介绍可控自由基聚合与离子开环聚合、阴离子聚合、烯类单体的阳离子聚合及其它活性聚合方法结合制备嵌段共聚物的研究现状和进展。     

Design and synthesis of multifunctional glycidyl ethers that undergo frontal polymerization

An investigation of the photoactivated cationic ring‐opening frontal polymerizations of a series of alkyl glycidyl ethers has been carried out with the aid of a novel technique, optical pyrometry. With this technique, the effects of the monomer structure on the frontal behavior of these monomers have been examined. Upon irradiation with UV light, the photopolymerizations of many alkyl glycidyl ethers display a prolonged induction period at room temperature as the result of the formation of long‐lived, relatively stable secondary oxonium ions. The input of only a small amount of thermal activation energy is required to induce the further reaction of these species with a consequent autoaccelerated exothermic ring‐opening polymerization. Photoactivated frontal polymerizations have been observed for both mono‐ and polyfunctional alkyl glycidyl ether monomers. The ability of monomers to exhibit frontal behavior has been found to be related to their ability to stabilize the secondary oxonium ion intermediates through multiple hydrogen‐bonding effects to the ether groups present in the molecule. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 6435–6448, 2006     

由可控聚合反应直接制备不同形貌的聚集体

由可控聚合,包括活性阴离子和自由基聚合直接制备不同形貌纳米材料,是近几年来合成化学领域的一个重要研究成果.与两亲性嵌段共聚物在选择性溶剂中自组装方法不同,在选择性溶剂中进行的分散聚合,首先生成两亲性嵌段共聚物,并逐渐增加第二段聚合物的链长,以实现相分离,形成球形胶束;聚合物链继续增长,实现形貌转变,从而制备预期的聚合物形貌,包括球形胶束、纳米棒、纳米线、囊泡和复合囊泡等.本文综述了乳液聚合法制备球形胶束等形貌;描述了不同聚合体系形成的形貌以及它们的性质和应用,讨论了形貌的形成机理和控制方法,同时指出了存在的问题.     

Cationic photopolymerization of alkyl glycidyl ethers

An investigation of the photoactivated cationic ring‐opening frontal polymerizations of a series of alkyl glycidyl ethers was carried out with the aid of a novel technique, optical pyrometry. With this technique, the effects of various experimental parameters, such as the photoinitiator type and concentration, as well as the effects of the monomer structure on the frontal behavior of these monomers were examined. Upon irradiation with UV light, the photopolymerizations of many alkyl glycidyl ethers displayed a prominent induction period at room temperature as the result of the formation of long‐lived, relatively stable secondary oxonium ions. The input of only a small amount of thermal activation energy was required to induce the further reaction of these species with the consequent autoaccelerated exothermic ring‐opening polymerization. Photoactivated frontal polymerizations were observed for both mono‐ and polyfunctional alkyl glycidyl ether monomers. The ability of monomers to exhibit frontal behavior was found to be related to their ability to stabilize the secondary oxonium ion intermediates through hydrogen‐bonding effects. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 3036–3052, 2006     

Stereospecific living radical polymerization for simultaneous control of molecular weight and tacticity

The simultaneous control of the molecular weights and the tacticity was attained even during radical polymerization by the judicious combinations of the living/controlled radical polymerizations based on the fast interconversion between the dormant and active species, and the stereospecific radical polymerizations mediated by the added Lewis acids or polar solvents via the coordination to the monomer/polymer terminal substituents. This can be useful for various monomers including not only conjugated monomers, such as acrylamides and methacrylates, but also nonconjugated ones such as vinyl acetate and N‐vinylpyrrolidone. Stereoblock polymers were easily obtained by the addition of the Lewis acids or by change of the solvents during the living radical polymerizations. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 6147–6158, 2006     

α-蒎烯、β-蒎烯、苧烯阳离子聚合的研究

比较了萜烯单体α 蒎烯、β 蒎烯、烯的阳离子聚合性能，还考察了这三种单体的活性聚合可能性．在Ｌｅｗｉｓ酸ＡｌＣｌ３作用下，聚合速率大小顺序为：β 蒎烯＞烯＞α 蒎烯．α 蒎烯、烯的聚合产物分子量较低；β 蒎烯的聚合产物分子量较高．ＡｌＣｌ３与ＳｂＣｌ３复合后，α 蒎烯、烯的聚合速率增加，β 蒎烯的聚合速率反而下降．α 蒎烯的聚合速率增加幅度大于烯，使得前者聚合速率高于后者．与使用ＡｌＣｌ３相比，添加ＳｂＣｌ３后产物的分子量变化是：α 蒎烯变大，烯不变，β 蒎烯则变小．添加ＳｂＣｌ３对β 蒎烯、烯的聚合物结构无影响，而α 蒎烯聚合产物的结构则发生显著变化．活性较高的β 蒎烯在适当的引发体系，如苯乙烯 ＨＣｌ加成物／ＴｉＣｌ３（ＯｉＰｒ）作用下，可以实现活性聚合．α 蒎烯、烯则由于本身单体活性太小，难以实现活性聚合．     

Expanding vinyl ether monomer repertoire for ring-expansion cationic polymerization: Various cyclic polymers with tailored pendant groups

Herein, we clarified the ring-expansion cationic polymerization with a cyclic hemiacetal ester (HAE)-based initiator was versatile in terms of applicable vinyl ether monomers. Although there was a risk that higher reactive vinyl ethers may incur β-H elimination of the HAE-based cyclic dormant species to irreversibly give linear chains, the polymerizations were controlled to give corresponding cyclic polymers from various alkyl vinyl ethers of different reactivities. Functional vinyl ether monomers were also available, and for instance a vinyl ether monomer carrying an initiator moiety for metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization in the pendant allowed construction of ring-linear graft copolymers through the grafting-from approach. Furthermore, ring-based gel was prepared via the addition of divinyl ether at the end of the ring-expansion polymerization, where multi HAE bonds cyclic polymers or fused rings were crosslinked with each other. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2017 , 55, 3082–3089     

Development of organotellurium‐mediated and organostibine‐mediated living radical polymerization reactions

Organotellurium‐mediated living radical polymerizations (TERPs) and organostibine‐mediated living radical polymerizations (SBRPs) provide well‐defined polymers with a variety of polar functional groups via degenerative chain‐transfer polymerization. The high controllability of these polymerizations can be attributed to the rapid degenerative‐transfer process between the polymer‐end radicals and corresponding dormant species. The versatility of the methods allows the synthesis of AB diblock, ABA triblock, and ABC triblock copolymers by the successive addition of different monomers. This review summarizes the current status of TERP and SBRP. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 1–12, 2006     

Degenerative chain‐transfer process: Controlling all chain‐growth polymerizations and enabling novel monomer sequences

The use of dormant species has opened a new era in precision polymerization and has changed the concept of living polymerization. The dormant species can be exchanged into the active species via reversible termination or via reversible chain transfer. Professor Mitsuo Sawamoto has greatly contributed to the establishment of the concepts of living cationic and radical polymerizations based on the reversible activation of dormant species. This highlight, dedicated to Professor Sawamoto on his retirement from Kyoto University, provides an overview of reversible or degenerative chain‐transfer (DT) processes, which are effective in controlling all chain‐growth polymerizations, including radical, cationic, anionic, coordination, ring‐opening metathesis, and ring‐opening polymerizations. In addition, structures with novel sequences accessible only by a combination of different propagating species with a common DT agent are reviewed. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2019 , 57, 243–254