异丁基乙烯基醚与受电子单体的可控自由基共聚合

近年来发展起来的“活性” 可控自由基聚合越来越为人们所关注 ,其原因在于采用这种方法不仅可以设计聚合物的分子量 ,得到窄分布聚合物 ,而且聚合条件不象活性离子型聚合那样严格 ,单体适用范围相对较广 .关于烯类单体的活性自由基聚合迄今主要有 :氮氧自由基调控的稳定自由基聚合 (Ｓｔａｂｌｅｆｒｅｅｒａｄｉｃａｌｐｏｌｙｍｅｒｉｚａｔｉｏｎ ,简称ＳＦＲＰ) [1] 、原子转移自由基聚合 (Ａｔｏｍｔｒａｎｓｆｅｒｒａｄｉｃａｌｐｏｌｙｍｅｒｉｚａｔｉｏｎ ,简称ＡＴＲＰ) [2 ] 以及以后发展起来的自由基可逆加成 断链链转移聚合…     

Kinetics theory of anionic copolymerization with constant monomer ratio, 1. Sequence distribution

The chain microstructure of copolymers generated via anionic copolymerization with constant monomer ratio is studied theoretically by using the linear operator technique to solve the kinetic differential equations. The microstructural parameters for copolymers, such as the functions of sequence distributions, average length of the sequence and fractions of dyads and triads, are derived and further connected with initial conditions and reaction time so that one can predict the chain microstructure for copolymers from the polymerization conditions.     

Controlled radical (co)polymerization of (meth)acrylic esters via the reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer mechanism

The homopolymerization of acrylic and fluoroacrylic esters mediated by benzyl dithiobenzoate and dibenzyl trithiocarbonate proceeds in the controlled mode via the reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer mechanism, while the controlled radical polymerization of methacrylic esters is not effected under these conditions. The molecular-mass characteristics of the copolymers of acrylic and methacrylic esters may be satisfactorily controlled by benzyl dithiobenzoate-mediated copolymerization when the content of acrylic esters is no less than 50 mol %. If a reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer agent active with respect to only one of the monomers is used, compositionally homogeneous narrowly dispersed copolymers are formed via the azeotropic copolymerization of the monomers up to high conversions. The controlled copolymerization of N-vinylpyrrolidone and fluoroacrylates allows the synthesis of alternating narrowly dispersed amphiphilic copolymers with properties different from those of alternating copolymers with a broad molecular-mass distribution.     

Copolymer of lactide and ε-caprolactone catalyzed by bimetallic Schiff base aluminum complexes

A series of copolymers of lactide(LA) and e-caprolactone(ε-CL) with different monomer feed ratios were achieved using three kinds of bimetallic Schiff aluminum complexes as catalysts. The ratios of LA and ε-CL units in different copolymers and the average segments length were determined by NMR analysis. The comparative kinetic study of L-LA/ε-CL and rac-LA/ε-CL copolymerization systems showed that the polymerization rate of LA was faster than ε-CL, and L-LA showed polymerization rate slightly faster than rac-LA. It was inferred that the copolymers achieved by these complexes were gradient copolymers with gradual change in distribution of LA and e-CL units. The thermal properties of these copolymers were characterized by DSC analysis, which showed that the glass transition temperature(Tg) of these copolymers changed regularly according to the pro-portion change of two structural units.     

Interconvertible Living Radical and Cationic Polymerization through Reversible Activation of Dormant Species with Dual Activity

The polymerization of vinyl monomers generally requires the selection of an appropriate single intermediate, whereas in copolymerization, the selection of the comonomer is limited by the intermediate. Herein, we propose interconvertible dual active species that can connect comonomers through different mechanisms to produce specific comonomer sequences in a single polymer chain. More specifically, two different stimuli, that is, a radical initiator and a Lewis acid, are used to activate the common dormant C? SC(S)Z group into radical and cationic species, thereby inducing interconvertible radical and cationic copolymerization of acrylate and vinyl ether to produce a copolymer chain that consists of radically and cationically polymerized segments. The dual reversible activation provides control over molecular weights and multiblock copolymers with tunable segment lengths.     

Monte Carlo simulation for the adsorption of symmetric triblock copolymers II. Adsorption layer information

By using Monte Carlo simulation, adsorption of both end-adsorbed and middle-adsorbed symmetric triblock copolymers from a non-selective solvent on an impenetrable surface has been studied. Influences of the adsorption energy, the bulk concentration, the chain composition and the chain length on the adsorption behavior including the surface coverage, the adsorption amount and the layer thickness are presented. It is shown that the total surface coverage for both end-adsorbed and middle-adsorbed copolymers increases monotonically as the bulk concentration increases. The higher the adsorption energy and the more the attractive segments, the higher the total surface coverage is exhibited. Surface coverage θ decreases with increasing the length of the non-attractive segments, but the product of θ and the proportion of the non-attractive segments in a triblock copolymer chain is nearly independent of the chain length. The adsorption amount increases almost monotonically with the bulk concentration. The logarithm of the adsorption amount is a linear function of the reciprocal of the reduced temperature. When the adsorption energy is large, the adsorption amount exhibits a maximum as the composition of the attractive segment increases. The adsorption isotherms of copolymers with different length of the non-attractive segments can be mapped onto a single curve under certain energy indicating that copolymers with different chain length have the same adsorption amount. The adsorption layer thickness for the end-adsorbed copolymers decreases as the energy and the number of adsorbing segments increases. The longer non-attractive segments, the larger adsorbed layer thickness is found. The tails mainly governs the adsorption layer thickness.     

From well‐defined diblock copolymers prepared by a versatile atom transfer radical polymerization method to supramolecular assemblies

The synthesis of well‐defined diblock copolymers by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) was explored in detail for the development of new colloidal carriers. The ATRP technique allowed the preparation of diblock copolymers of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) (number‐average molecular weight: 2000) and ionic or nonionizable hydrophobic segments. Using monofunctionalized PEG macroinitiator, ionizable and hydrophobic monomers were polymerized to obtain the diblock copolymers. This polymerization method provided good control over molecular weights and molecular weight distributions, with monomer conversions as high as 98%. Moreover, the copolymerization of hydrophobic and ionizable monomers using the PEG macroinitiator made it possible to modulate the physicochemical properties of the resulting polymers in solution. Depending on the length and nature of the hydrophobic segment, the nonionic copolymers could self‐assemble in water into nanoparticles or polymeric micelles. For example, the copolymers having a short hydrophobic block (5 < degree of polymerization < 9) formed polymeric micelles in aqueous solution, with an apparent critical association concentration between 2 and 20 mg/L. The interchain association of PEG‐based polymethacrylic acid derivatives was found to be pH‐dependent and occurred at low pH. The amphiphilic and nonionic copolymers could be suitable for the solubilization and delivery of water‐insoluble drugs, whereas the ionic diblock copolymers offer promising characteristics for the delivery of electrostatically charged compounds (e.g., DNA) through the formation of polyion complex micelles. Thus, ATRP represents a promising technique for the design of new multiblock copolymers in drug delivery. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 39: 3861–3874, 2001     

Thermoresponsive brush copolymers with poly(propylene oxide‐ran‐ethylene oxide) side chains via metal‐free anionic polymerization “grafting from” technique

Thermoresponsive brush copolymers with poly(propylene oxide‐ran‐ethylene oxide) side chains were synthesized via a “grafting from” technique. Poly(p‐hydroxystyrene) was used as the backbone, and the brush copolymers were prepared by random copolymerization of mixtures of oxyalkylene monomers, using metal‐free anionic ring‐opening polymerization, with the phosphazene base (t‐BuP₄) being the polymerization promoter. By controlling the monomer feed ratios in the graft copolymerization, two samples with the same side‐chain length and different compositions were prepared, both of which possessed high molecular weights and low molecular weight distributions. The results from light scattering and fluorescence spectroscopy indicated that the brush copolymers in their dilute aqueous solutions were near completely solvated at low temperature and underwent slight intramolecular chain contraction/association and much more profound intermolecular aggregation at different stages of the step‐by‐step heating process. Above 50 °C, very turbid solutions, followed by macrophase separation, were observed for both of the samples, which implied that it was difficult for the brush copolymers to form stable nanoscopic aggregates at high temperature. All these observations were attributed, at least partly, to the distribution of the oxyalkylene monomers along the side chains and the overall brush‐like molecular architecture. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 2320–2328, 2010     

丙烯酸(N-甲基全氟己烷磺酰胺基)乙酯与MMA梯度共聚物的合成与表征

通过电子转移再生催化剂的原子转移自由基聚合(ARGET ATRP)研究了甲基丙烯酸甲酯(MMA)和丙烯酸(N-甲基全氟己烷磺酰胺基)乙酯(C₆SA)的共聚可控性及单体的反应活性, 利用Kelen-Tüdos法测得MMA和C₆SA的表观竞聚率分别为r(MMA)=1.42, r(C₆SA)=0.34. 在此基础上, 考察了聚合过程中共聚物组成和表面能的变化. 共聚物的凝胶渗透色谱法(GPC)曲线呈现严格的单峰分布, 分子量随着转化率的增加而增加, 且分布较窄(多分散系数PDI<1.3), 共聚反应表现出"活性"聚合的特征. 静态接触角测试结果显示, 共聚物表面能随着转化率的增加而降低, ¹H NMR结果显示, C₆SA链节的含量随着分子链的增长而增加, 分子链由开始时的MMA为主导转变为后期的C₆SA为主导, 表明形成了梯度共聚物.     

Observation of different catalytic activity of various 1-olefins during ethylene/1-olefin copolymerization with homogeneous metallocene catalysts

This research aimed to investigate the copolymerization of ethylene and various 1-olefins. The comonomer lengths were varied from 1-hexene (1-C?) up to 1-octadecene (1-C??) in order to study the effect of comonomer chain length on the activity and properties of the polymer in the metallocene/MAO catalyst system. The results indicated that two distinct cases can be described for the effect of 1-olefin chain length on the activity. Considering the short chain length comonomers, such as 1-hexene, 1-octene and 1-decene, it is obvious that the polymerization activity decreased when the length of comonomer was higher, which is probably due to increased steric hindrance at the catalytic center hindering the insertion of ethylene monomer to the active sites, hence, the polymerization rate decreased. On the contrary, for the longer chain 1-olefins, namely 1-dodecene, 1-tetradecene and 1-octadecene, an increase in the comonomer chain length resulted in better activity due to the opening of the gap aperture between C(p)(centroid)-M-C(p)-(centroid), which forced the coordination site to open more. This effect facilitated the polymerization of the ethylene monomer at the catalytic sites, and thus, the activity increased. The copolymers obtained were further characterized using thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction spectroscopy and 13C-NMR techniques. It could be seen that the melting temperature and comonomer distribution were not affected by the 1-olefin chain length. The polymer crystallinity decreased slightly with increasing comonomer chain length. Moreover, all the synthesized polymers were typical LLDPE having random comonomer distribution.     

辛酸镁催化L-丙交酯与ε-己内酯共聚及其共聚物结构与性能研究

以无毒性的辛酸镁为催化剂催化L-丙交酯和ε-己内酯本体开环共聚合,制备了一系列不同单体配比的共聚物.首先用1H-NMR跟踪了共聚合单体转化率,显示L-LA聚合速率显著快于ε-CL.用13C-NMR分析共聚物微观结构和计算单体单元平均序列长度(LLLe和LCe),表明聚合过程中酯交换反应导致单元序列结构重新分布.随着反应进行,LLLe急剧下降而LCe逐渐增加后稍有降低,游程数逐渐增大,共聚物无规度提高.反应初期主要是一级酯交换反应,二级酯交换反应导致的CLC序列结构在反应后期才观察到.由Fineman-Ross法计算出L-丙交酯和ε-己内酯的竞聚率分别为rLA=23和rCL=0.22,表明在聚合反应初期L-LA单体优先插入聚合物增长链端,形成LL单元长嵌段结构.共聚物组成显著影响单元序列长度,各序列长度随相应单体加入量增加而增长.二级酯交换系数(TII[CLC])随ε-CL含量增加而增大.对于整个组成范围内,根据竞聚率计算的LLLr值始终要大于聚合产物的LLLe,而LCr计算值小于或接近LCe实验值.因此,共聚物单元序列分布随共聚物投料比和反应时间而改变,趋向于无规分布.以DSC和XRD分析了共聚物热性能和结晶性,表明共聚物结晶性与单元序列长度密切相关.所有共聚物只有一个玻璃化转变温度Tg,符合无规共聚物的Fox方程,说明所得共聚物为无规共聚物,或者说包含有相容性嵌段成分的共聚物.     

Monte Carlo simulation for the adsorption of symmetric triblock copolymers I. Configuration distribution and density profiles of adsorbed chains

Monte Carlo simulations for the adsorption of symmetric triblock copolymers from a nonselective solvent at a solid-liquid interface have been performed on a lattice model. In simulations, triblock copolymer molecules are modeled as self-avoiding linear chains composed of m segments of A and n segments of B arranged as A_m/2B_nA_m/2. Either segment A or segment B is attractive, while the other is non-attractive to the surface. The microstructure of the adsorbed layers, including the segment-density profiles and the size distribution of loops, tails and trains are presented. The effect of the adsorption energy, the bulk concentration, the chain composition, as well as the chain length on various adsorption properties has been studied. The results have shown that the size distribution of various configurations is dependent of the adsorption energy, the chain composition and the chain length. The mean length of the loops, trains and tails is insensitive to the bulk concentration. The mean length of the trains increases and that of the tails decreases as the adsorption energy and the length of the attractive segments increase. The mean length of the loops for the end-adsorbed copolymers appears a maximum and that for middle-adsorbed copolymers appears a minimum as the length of attractive segments increases. The length of the non-attractive segments affects mostly the size distribution of the tails. The longer the chain is, the larger the tail appears. The mean length of the tails and loops increases linearly as the length of the non-attractive segments increases, but that of the trains approximately is unchanged.     

Controlled radical copolymerization of N-vinylpyrrolidone with 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropyl-α-fluoroacrylate

Narrow disperse copolymers of N-vinylpyrrolidone with 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropyl-α-fluoroacrylate have been prepared for the first time by reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer pseudo-living radical polymerization in the presence of benzyl dithiobenzoate. The relative activities of the monomers indicating the occurrence of alternating copolymerization have been estimated. The copolymerization of equimolar N-vinylpyrrolidone-1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropyl-α-fluoroacrylate mixtures shows typical features of reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer pseudoliving radical polymerization: deceleration of polymerization compared to the classical radical process, degeneration of the gel effect, successive increase in the number-average molecular mass with conversion, and formation of narrow disperse copolymers.     

2-[(Diallyl)hydroxymethyl]pyrrolidine in radical (co)polymerization reactions

The feasibility of the free-radical (co)polymerization of 2-[(diallyl)hydroxymethyl]pyrrolidine is studied. It is found that, under radical-initiation conditions, this monomer is not involved in homopolymerization and copolymerization with vinyl monomers; however, it exhibits high activity during copolymerization with sulfur dioxide. Copolymerization proceeds to yield alternating copolymers of an equimolar composition. The main polymer chain contains both linear fragments formed via opening of one double bond of 2-[(diallyl)hydroxymethyl]pyrrolidine and cyclolinear structures resulting from the participation of two double bonds in the reaction. It is demonstrated that the copolymers obtained are optically active.     

Dispersion copolymerization of polyoxyethylene macronomer and styrene 4. Solution properties of polystyrene-graft-polyoxyethylene copolymers

The graft copolymers (polystyrene-graft-polyoxyethylene) (PSt-graft-PEO) were prepared by the radical dispersion copolymerization of methacryloyl (MA)-terminated PEO macromonomer and styrene. By means of size-exclusion chromatography, liquid chromatography at the critical adsorption point, and light scattering, the molecular weight parameters and the solution properties of PSt-graft-PEO were investigated. The apparent average molecular weight and the molecular weight distribution (MWD) of graft copolymers were found to decrease with increasing molecular weight of PEO-MA macromonomer. This decreased molecular weight was attributed to the chain transfer to PEO unit and increased contribution of the solution polymerization. The broad MWD varied with the ratio of the polymerization in the continuous phase and the polymer particles. The number of PEO grafts per PSt backbone decreased with increasing molecular weight of the PSt-graft-PEO copolymer, which was attributed to the intramolecular association of PEO segments. The intrinsic viscosity or the coil size of graft copolymer molecules varied with temperature as a result of the dehydration of PEO segments. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 37: 3087–3097, 1999     

Synthesis of polysiloxanes with electron-donating groups by anionic ring-opening polymerization

Anionic kinetically controlled ring opening polymerization of cyclotrisiloxane is explored as a method of synthesis of copolymers having the chain composed of dimethylsiloxane units and siloxane units bearing an uncharged nucleophilic (electron-donating, ED) group. Model monomers for these studies are derived from hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane (D₃) in which one methyl group is replaced by the organophosphorus group of general formula - (CH₂) _nP(X)Ph₂ where X is lone pair, O or S. This method is shown to give significant advantages over the thermodynamically controlled homopolymerization and copolymerization of nucleophile-substituted cyclosiloxanes which have so far been used for synthesis of ED substituted siloxane copolymers. The yield of the copolymers is much higher and the molecular weight distribution is narrow. The arrangement of the ED substituents along the chain, although not purely uniform, is much more regular as compared with the statistical distribution. The content of cyclic oligomers was higher than in the polymerization of unsubstituted D₃, which is rationalized on the basis of intramolecular interaction of the counter-ion with the ED groups.     

Molecular weight relations for crosslinking of chains with length and site distribution

Many polymer networks are formed by crosslinked polymer chains through reactive sites distributed along the chains. How these sites are distributed as well as the chain length distribution can have a significant effect on properties like the gel conversion and molecular weight. Previous treatments have used simplifying approximations. In this paper we eliminate these approximations and derive computational formulae for weight average molecular weight and gel point for polymer chains of any length and reactive site distribution. Three types of crosslinking are considered: direct coupling of chains (homopolymerization), direct coupling through propagation, and coupling through copolymerization with small monomers.     

活性聚合法合成结构精确的含氟嵌段共聚物

结构精确的含氟嵌段共聚物具有优异而独特的化学和物理性能,有广阔的应用前景,因此受到广泛的关注.含氟嵌段共聚物可分为两类,一类是侧基含氟嵌段共聚物,另一类是主链含氟嵌段共聚物.活性聚合为嵌段共聚物的合成提供了最为重要的方法,利用它可以合成结构精确、分子量可控、分子量分布窄的嵌段共聚物.根据单体的反应特性选择不同的聚合方法,可以得到不同的含氟嵌段共聚物.本文主要综述了近几年利用各种活性聚合方法合成结构精确的含氟嵌段共聚物方面的进展.     

可聚合的光引发转移终止剂合成接枝共聚物

采用一种可聚合的光引发转移终止剂 ,2 N ,N 二乙基二硫代氨基甲酰氧基乙酸 β 甲基丙烯酰氧基乙酯 (MAEDCA) ,通过两种途径制备了含有聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯 (PMMA)和聚苯乙烯 (PSt)链段的接枝共聚物 .其一是将MAEDCA作为引发剂 ,在紫外光照射下引发MMA聚合 ,得到大分子单体 ,通过大分子单体与St的共聚合得到 .考察了所用大分子单体的分子量和浓度对共聚合的影响 .其二是将MAEDCA作为单体与MMA共聚得到侧链上含有N ,N 二乙基二硫代氨基甲酰氧基 (DC)基团的无规共聚物 ,P(MMA co MAEDCA) .在紫外光照射下 ,P(MMA co MAEDCA)作为大分子引发剂引发St聚合 ,得到P(MMA co MAEDCA) g PSt的共聚物 ,研究了接枝共聚合过程的活性自由基聚合特征     

Postgel properties in the statistical crosslinking of heterochains. II. Free‐radical crosslinking copolymerization

The heterochain crosslinking theory is applied to postgel behavior in the free‐radical crosslinking copolymerization of vinyl and divinyl monomers. In this context, the crosslinked polymer formation can be viewed as a system in which the primary chains formed at different times are combined in accordance with the statistical chain‐connection rule governed by the chemical reaction kinetics. Because the primary chains are formed consecutively, the number of chain types N must be extrapolated to infinity, N → ∞. Practically, such extrapolation can be conducted with the calculated values for only three different N values. The analytical expressions for the weight fraction and average molecular weights of the sol fraction are derived for the general primary chain length distribution function in free‐radical polymerization. Illustrative calculations show that the obtained results agree with those from the Monte Carlo method, and that the postgel properties in free‐radical crosslinking copolymerization systems could be significantly different from those in randomly crosslinked systems. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 38: 2342–2350, 2000