Tailoring Polymer Dispersity by RAFT Polymerization: A Versatile Approach

Richard Whitfield; Kostas Parkatzidis; Nghia P. Truong; Tanja Junkers; Athina Anastasaki

doi:10.1016/j.chempr.2020.04.020

Tailoring Polymer Dispersity by RAFT Polymerization: A Versatile Approach

Richard Whitfield, Kostas Parkatzidis, Nghia P. Truong, Tanja Junkers, Athina Anastasaki

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Abstract

Reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization has been widely utilized to produce low-dispersity (co)polymers by employing a single high-activity RAFT agent. Anastasaki and co-workers reported RAFT polymerization by mixing one high-activity and one low-activity RAFT agent to tune the dispersity for a wide range of polymer classes. In all cases, monomodal molecular weight distributions were obtained, and this method was further applied to the preparation of block co-polymers, where successful chain extension was observed, independent of initial dispersity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1340-1352
Number of pages	13
Journal	Chem
Volume	6
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2020.04.020
Publication status	Published - 11 Jun 2020

Keywords

block co-polymers
controlled radical polymerization
dispersity
kinetic modeling
mixing CTAs
molecular weight distributions
RAFT chain-transfer agents
RAFT polymerization
SDG9: Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

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