Iron‐mediated AGET ATRP of methyl methacrylate in the presence of polar solvents as ligands |
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| Authors: | Danfeng Yang Dan He Yonggui Liao Zhigang Xue Xingping Zhou Xiaolin Xie |
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| Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory for Large‐Format Battery Materials and Systems, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, , Wuhan, 430074 China;2. Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Chemical Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Jianghan University, , Wuhan, 430056 China |
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| Abstract: | The polar solvents, N‐methylpyrrolidone (NMP), N,N‐dimethylformamide (DMF), and acetonitrile (CH3CN) were used as ligands for iron(III)‐mediated activators generated by electron transfer atom transfer radical polymerizations (AGET ATRPs) of methyl methacrylate (MMA) with various initiators and reducing agents. Polymerizations were conducted with a molar ratio of MMA]0/initiator]0/FeBr3]0/reducing agent]0 = 100:1:1:0.5 and a volume ratio of MMA/solvent = 2:1 at 60 °C to investigate the effects of initiator, solvent and reducing agent, and most of the systems showed the typical features of “living”/controlled radical polymerization. In order to get a deeper understanding of the mechanism, the amount of the reducing agent was changed to study the polymerization behavior. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2014 , 52, 1020–1027 |
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| Keywords: | iron(III)‐mediated AGET ATRP ligand MMA polar solvent |
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