We aimed at the synthesis of well-define PS-b-P4VP by using atom transfer radical polymerization in two-step process. First, polystyrenes with benzyl bromide end group (PS-Br; by ATRP) were prepared as macroinitiator for the next ATRP of 4-vinyl pyridine and characterized these polymers from 1H-NMR and MALDI-TOF. Comparing with MALDI-TOF-MS, 1H-NMR and GPC analyses, this indicates that the formation of the block copolymer can be observed. During the polymerizations, molecular weight distribution and kinetics have been evaluated from GPC traces and 1H-NMR analyses. We further characterized the thermal properties of these block polymers by DSC and TGA. DSC measurement on the PS-b-P4VP block copolymers exhibited two glass transitions, indicating that the resulting block copolymers are phase separated. Two maxima differential peaks were observed on the TGA trace for the PS-b-P4VP block copolymers might be assigned to the decomposition of the P4VP blocks at 380 ○C and the PS blocks at higher temperature. 相似文献
Summary: We describe the removal of copper from atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) through electrochemistry. tert‐Butyl methacrylate ATRP initiated by a PEO macroinitiator was run with CuBr complexed by N‐alkyl‐2‐pyridylmethanimine (Schiff base) or 2,2′‐bipyridyl (bpy) as catalyst. Voltammetry experiments using a CuBr/(Schiff base N‐morpholine‐2‐pyridylmethanimine)2 complex on a Pt electrode shows an oxidation peak of the ligand at 1.2 V permitting the oxidative destruction of the complex and so the elimination of copper. Using a Hg electrode, it is possible to directly reduce these complexes (at ?2.1 V for the morpholine‐2‐pyridylmethanimine, ?2.19 V for the butyl‐2‐pyridylmethanimine, and ?2.25 V for the bpy). This complex reduction, followed by the formation of a copper amalgam, leads to the quantitative removal of copper and proceeds without polymer degradation.
The electrochemical removal of copper from the ATRP reaction. 相似文献
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is currently one of the most often used synthetic polymerization methods to prepare well-defined polymers with complex architecture. This review covers some fundamentals of copper-based ATRP, presents basic structure–reactivity correlation for initiators and catalyst complexes and discusses the radical nature of reactive intermediates. New ATRP initiating processes with ppm amounts of copper catalysts and various reducing agents are described together with recent electrochemically controlled ATRP and polymerization in aqueous homogeneous and dispersed media. Examples of polymers with precisely controlled architecture are presented together with the effect of variable amounts of catalysts on molecular weight distribution and morphology of nanostructured block copolymers. Some current and forthcoming applications of polymers made by ATRP are presented. 相似文献