Improving the knowledge and design of end groups in polymers produced by free radical polymerization

Busfield, WK; Jenkins, ID; Nakamura, T; Monteiro, MJ; Rizzardo, E; Sayama, S; Thang, SH; van Le, P; Zayas-Holdsworth, CI

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4854512

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Journal Article

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1998

HERO ID 4854512
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Year 1998
Title Improving the knowledge and design of end groups in polymers produced by free radical polymerization
Authors Busfield, WK; Jenkins, ID; Nakamura, T; Monteiro, MJ; Rizzardo, E; Sayama, S; Thang, SH; van Le, P; Zayas-Holdsworth, CI
Journal Polymers for Advanced Technologies
Volume 9
Issue 1
Page Numbers 94-100
Abstract Several techniques have been used to probe polymer end groups. The nitroxide radical trapping technique has been used (i) to show that initiator-derived unsaturated end groups in polymethyl methacrylate can be minimized by using t-hexyl peroxypivalate as the initiator (ii) to predict the end and penultimate groups in acrylonitrile/ethyl vinyl ether copolymer produced by t-butoxyl initiation by analogy with the initiation mechanism (iii) to predict probable end groups in polyacrylonitrile and polystyrene produced by cyanoisopropyl initiation in the presence of adventitious oxygen. NMR techniques have been used to show that the end groups of functionalized oligomers, made from styrene and methacrylonitrile by the addition-fragmentation chain transfer technique with allylic sulphides, conform to the expected structures. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Doi 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1581(199801)9:1<94::AID-PAT738>3.0.CO;2-B
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Keyword nitroxides; functionalized oligomers; polymer end-group control; free radical polymerization