Kinetic study of the nitroxide‐mediated controlled free‐radical polymerization of n‐butyl acrylate in aqueous miniemulsions

The controlled free‐radical homopolymerization of n‐butyl acrylate was studied in aqueous miniemulsions at 112 and 125 °C with a low molar mass alkoxyamine unimolecular initiator and an acyclic β‐phosphonylated nitroxide mediator, N‐tert‐butyl‐N‐(1‐diethylphosphono‐2,2‐dimethylpropyl) nitroxide, also called SG1. The polymerizations led to stable latices with 20 wt % solids and were obtained with neither coagulation during synthesis nor destabilization over time. However, in contrast to latices obtained via classical free‐radical polymerization, the average particle size of the final latices was large, with broad particle size distributions. The initial [SG1]₀/[alkoxyamine]₀ molar ratio was shown to control the rate of polymerization. The fraction of SG1 released upon macroradical self‐termination was small with respect to the initial alkoxyamine concentration, indicating a very low fraction of dead chains. Average molar masses were controlled by the initial concentration of alkoxyamine and increased linearly with monomer conversion. The molar mass distribution was narrow, depending on the initial concentration of free nitroxide in the system. The initiator efficiency was lower than 1 at 112 °C but was very significantly improved when either a macroinitiator was used at 112 °C or the polymerization temperature was raised to 125 °C. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 40: 4410–4420, 2002     

混杂聚合

混杂聚合是指同一体系内有两种或两种以上不同类型的聚合反应同时进行的过程,如自由基聚合与阳离子聚合,自由基聚合与缩聚等。混杂聚合能够在原位形成高分子合金,并有可能得到互穿网络结构（ＩＰＮ）,从而使聚合产物具备较好的综合性能。     

含糖聚合物可控合成研究进展

活性聚合技术的进步,使设计合成结构可控的含糖聚合物成为可能.本文介绍了阴离子聚合、阳离子聚合、原子转移自由基聚合、可逆加成断裂链转移聚合、硝基氧介导聚合、开环聚合和开环易位聚合等一系列可控/"活性"聚合技术在合成含糖聚合物中的应用,并对这一领域所取得的研究进展及现状进行了综述.     

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。     

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.     

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。     

Simple polymerization through oxygen at reduced volumes using oil and water

An enduring question is: what is the simplest and easiest way to obtain tailored polymers? This communication explores a robust photoiniferter polymerization with only two active ingredients that requires no prior deoxygenation and can be performed on the milliliter scale or sub-milliliter scale. Rather than leaving headspace in the polymerization vessel or scaling reactions up to fill the vessel, this approach fills the headspace of the reaction vessel with mineral oil or inert solvents. This approach can also be applied to polar monomers in aqueous media, using oil as the inert solvent, or to hydrophobic monomers with water as the inert solvent. This method removes enough ambient oxygen that the photoiniferter reaction proceeds with no deoxygenation step, and achieves high conversion and good molecular weight control in 10–20 h in both aqueous and organic solvents. Complex polymer architectures such as multiblock copolymers and gradient polymers were successfully synthesized by this approach.     

Kinetic aspects of styrene minisuspension polymerization using a mixture PVA-SDS as stabilizer: Effect of the time of addition of SDS

The styrene minisuspension polymerization at 70 °C using AIBN as initiator and Polyvinil alcohol (PVA) and mixture PVA-sodium dodecil sulfate (SDS) as stabilizers was studied focusing on the kinetic behavior of the process after the SDS was added (PVA is present from the beginning and SDS is added at a given time t_SDS). It was confirmed that the addition of SDS to the system initially stabilized with PVA highly enhances the colloidal stability of the polymer particles because of the association formed between SDS and PVA molecules. It was observed that when SDS is added the rate of polymerization, the average molecular weight and final latex viscosity increase. The earlier the addition of SDS the more marked these increments. This behavior is explained in terms of the colloidal stability of the particles formed via emulsion polymerization and its effect on kinetic aspects such as the evolution of molecular weight and particle size distributions during the minisuspension polymerization.     

Infrared thermographic analysis on copolymerization of spiroorthoester with oxetane

Infrared (IR) thermography was employed to monitor temperature changes during the copolymerization of a spiroorthoester monomer with an oxetane monomer initiated with a benzyl sulfonium salt. The temperature changes in the polymerizations decreased with the increase of the initial feed ratios of the spiroorthocarbonate monomer. For instance, the temperature in the copolymerization of the equimolar mixture of both of the monomers increased only ～1 °C, whereas that in the homopolymerization of the oxetane monomer increased more than 20 °C. This result indicates that the copolymerization employing spiroorthocarbonate monomers effectively suppress temperature increase, which are responsible to shrinkage during cooling. The suppression of polymerization shrinkage by spiroorthocarbonate was also confirmed by density measurement of the polymers using a gas pycnometer. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 1388–1393, 2007.     

Criteria for living systems with a special emphasis on living cationic polymerization of alkenes

A number of new living systems have been reported in recent years. Classic anionic polymerization of nonpolar monomers allows the synthesis of well-defined high molecular weight polymers (DP > 1000), block copolymers, chains with perfect terminal functionalities and behaves as a true living system. Some new systems abuse the term “living polymerization.” A relatively modest criterion for living systems is proposed “3 X 10,000,” i.e., k_p/k_t > 10⁴ mol^-1 L, k_p/k_tr > 10⁴, 1/k_t/tr > 10⁴ s (translated to < 10% of chains deactivated at t ≈ 1000 s), which is related to a typical limit of the polymeric chain dimensions (DP ≈ 100) and standard synthetic manipulations (≈ 15 min). New living cationic systems are discussed in detail with special emphasis on exchange phenomena. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Nitroxide‐mediated free‐radical copolymerization of styrene with butyl acrylate

Controlled free‐radical copolymerization of styrene (S) and butyl acrylate (BA) was achieved by using a second‐generation nitroxide, N‐tert‐butyl‐N‐[1‐diethylphosphono‐(2,2‐dimethylpropyl)] nitroxide (DEPN), and 2,2‐azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) at 120 °C. The time‐conversion first‐order plot was linear, and the number‐average molecular weight increased in direct proportion to the ratio of monomer conversion to the initial concentration, providing copolymers with low polydispersity. The monomer reactivity ratios obtained were r_S = 0.74 and r_BA = 0.29, respectively. To analyze the convenience of applying the Mayo–Lewis terminal model, the cumulative copolymer composition against conversion and the individual conversion of each monomer as a function of copolymerization time were studied. The theoretical values of the propagating radical concentration ratio were also examined to investigate the copolymerization rate behavior. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 42: 4168–4176, 2004     

Effect of dose rate on emulsion and microemulsion polymerization of styrene

Emulsion and microemulsion polymerization of styrene were initiated with a gamma ray to study the effect of dose rate on polymerization. In both systems, there is an apparent plateau of polymerization rate in the curve of reaction rate vs. conversion. It was shown that emulsion polymerization conformed to the Smith–Ewart theory very well. Changing the dose rate in interval 2 had no great influence on polymerization rate, but it changed the average lifetime of radicals in polymer particles and affected the molecular weight of polymer produced. For microemulsion polymerization it was assumed that in the plateau it is the number of growing polymer particles being kept constant, not the number of polymer particles. When the dose rate was changed while the polymerization came into the constant period, the polymerization rate and the molecular weight of the polymer varied with the dose rate. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 36: 257–262, 1998     

The effect of a trithiol and inorganic fillers on the photo‐induced thermal frontal polymerization of a triacrylate

Thermal frontal polymerization is a process in which a localized reaction propagates through an unstirred system by the coupling of the thermal diffusion and the Arrhenius kinetics of an exothermic polymerization. A trithiol was found to affect the front velocity and the time for inducing a front upon exposure to UV light for trimethylolpropane triacrylate polymerization fronts with either kaolin or calcium carbonate filler present. The addition of trithiol and filler both decreased the front velocity. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 8091–8096, 2008     

丙烯酸2-乙基己酯/丙烯酸辐射乳液聚合——乳胶中羧基的分布

本文用辐射法引发丙烯酸2-乙基己酯/丙烯酸(EHA/AA)乳液共聚合,用酸碱反滴定法研究了剂量率、剂量、乳化剂浓度、固含量、共聚物分子量、丙烯酸浓度、丙烯酸加料方式及丙烯酸预先中和程度等反应条件对乳胶中羧酸可滴定百分比的影响。并对聚合机理作了初步探讨。     

Ultrafast organocatalytic ring-opening polymerization of N-sulfonyl aziridine in the melt

An ultrafast approach for controlled synthesis of well-defined polysulfonamides is established through organocatalytic anionic ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of N-sulfonyl aziridine in the melt. Several different organobases are investigated, and it is found that N,N,N′,N″,N″-pentamethyldiethylenetriamine (PMDETA) catalyzed ROP of 2-methyl-N-tosylaziridine (TsMAz) gives the desired polymer, while 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO) and 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]-undec-7-ene (DBU) initiate the polymerization along with initiator to produce uncontrolled polymers. Using PMDETA as the catalyst, poly(2-methyl-N-tosylaziridine) with molecular weight over 100 kg/mol can be synthesized in less than 90 s. Various initiators, including carboxylic acid, N-sulfonyl amide, unactivated amine, phenol, and thiol, are applicable for this protocol to give the molecular weight and end-group controlled polymers under the open-flask condition. Combining this ultrafast ROP with ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), a brush copolymer is facile synthesized. This approach allows the ultrafast metal-free synthesis of polysulfonamide and expands the scope of initiators for the ROP of N-sulfonyl aziridines.     

苯乙烯微乳液种子聚合

通过观测苯乙烯微乳液种子聚合前后体系内聚合物粒子大小及其分布的变化发现,无论是γ射线还是KPS引发,聚合过程中都没有新的聚合物粒子生成。尽管聚合前体系中存在单体溶胀的胶束,但在聚合过程中这些胶束主要充当单体仓库,自己成核聚合的几率很低。由于微乳液种子聚合体系内,单体量相对较低,聚合物粒子数目很大,其聚合动力学明显不同于常规乳液种子聚合。     

High solids TEMPO‐mediated radical semibatch emulsion polymerization of styrene

A bicomponent initiation system consisting of 2,2,6,6‐tetramethylpiperidine‐N‐oxyl (TEMPO) and the water soluble initiator potassium persulfate (KPS) was used to develop a robust and versatile semibatch emulsion polymerization process to obtain polystyrene (PS) latexes with solids contents of 5–40 wt %. A window of operating conditions was found that yielded high conversion (>95%) stable latexes and well controlled polymers, overcoming limitations found in previous attempts at developing similar processes using TEMPO. The critical parameters studied were surfactant concentration, monomer concentration in the nucleation step and the monomer feed rate in the semibatch step. Methyl acrylate (MA) was used in the nucleation step to improve the nitroxide efficiency (N_Eff). Latexes having molecular weight distribution (MWD) with dispersity (?) lower than 1.5, average particle size (D_p) from ≈32 to ≈500 nm, nitroxide efficiencies N_Eff up to ≈1.0 and monomer conversions >90% were obtained in less than 12 h with solids contents up to 40 wt %. These results constitute a significant advance over prior efforts in TEMPO‐mediated polymerization in aqueous dispersions. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2016 , 54, 49–62