Monomers and Other Reagents in Free-Radical Grafting

Vinyl Monomers and Other Reagents in Free-Radical Grafting 

Graft copolymers were also produced by bubbling alkylene oxides through starch solutions in dimethyl sulfoxide in the presence of potassium naphthenate.2888,2889 Another approach involved grafting polyethylene oxide) to starch. Polyethylene oxide) was converted into a chloroformate derivative and subjected to a reaction with starch alkoxide 2890 Poly(alkylene glycol) could be grafted onto starch by means of cyclic aliphatic acid anhydride in the presence of 4-toluenesulfonic acid 2891 The products were water soluble. 

Poly(amino acids)2892 and polypeptides2893 can also be grafted onto starch. Starch was first alkylated in the presence of lithium naphthalene, and then the alkoxy derivatives were reacted with /V-carboxy anhydrides. Poly(amide amines) were produced by reacting amines with dioic acids on starch and then crosslinking with epichlorohydrin or 1,2-dichloroethane 2894 Grafting of starch with a synthetic polymer chain, for instance, polystyryl carboxylate anions prepared by an anionic polymerization, can be carried out on a blend of starch and cellulose functionalized by sulfonation, mesylation, or tosylation. In this manner, cellulose-starch graft copolymers were prepared.2895 

The vast majority of grafting studies have been performed with vinyl monomers. Other types of starch graft copolymers have been prepared from starch and lactones or lactides.2937,2938 Such copolymers could be prepared using reagents in W-dimethylacetamide in the presence of lithium chloride and triethylamine. 

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