Whitfield, Richard, Anastasaki, Athina, Jones, Glen R. and Haddleton, David M. (2018) Cu(0)-RDRP of styrene : balancing initiator efficiency and dispersity. Polymer Chemistry, 9 (34). pp. 4395-4403. doi:10.1039/C8PY00814K

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Abstract

Cu(0)-RDRP is a powerful technique to synthesise a wide range of polymeric materials and architectures with controlled molecular weight, low dispersities and high end group fidelity. The vast majority of reports using this technique focus on the polymerisation of acrylates or methacrylates, with very limited examples on styrene, which is surprising as this is one of the most important vinyl monomers. Herein we present the first Cu(0)-wire mediated polymerisation of styrene with enhanced initiator efficiency and dispersity. The structure of the ligand, the type of the initiator, the nature of the solvent and the catalyst concentration have been systematically varied to afford polystyrene at relatively high molecular weights (~ 50, 000 g mol-1) with excellent agreement between theoretical and experimental number average molecular weight values and good control over the molecular weight distributions (Ð ~ 1.15).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Chemistry
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Styrene, Polystyrene, Addition polymerization
Journal or Publication Title:	Polymer Chemistry
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN:	1759-9954
Official Date:	2018
Dates:	Date Event 2018 Published 3 August 2018 Available 2 August 2018 Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit:	6 August 2018
Volume:	9
Number:	34
Page Range:	pp. 4395-4403
DOI:	10.1039/C8PY00814K
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:	Project/Grant ID RIOXX Funder Name Funder ID UNSPECIFIED Syngenta International http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010761 UNSPECIFIED Lubrizol http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007036 UNSPECIFIED University of Warwick http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000741 UNSPECIFIED FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100011264

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