Poly synthesized, molecular weight distribution

As these block copolymers were synthesized using the anionic polymerization technique, their molecular weight distributions were narrow. The microspheres with narrower size distribution are better for well-ordered self-organization. Actually, all block copolymers synthesized for these works formed poly(4-vinyl pyridine) (P4VP) spheres in the PS matrices with narrow size distributions. 

The poly(styrene-b-isoprene) (P(S-b-IP)) and poly(-styrene-b-2-vinyl pyridine) (P(S-b-2VP)) block copolymers with narrow molecular weight distributions for blending with the microspheres were also synthesized using the additional anionic polymerization technique. The number-average molecular weights (Mns) and PS contents are also shown in Table 1. 

Various substituted styrene-alkyl methacrylate block copolymers and all-acrylic block copolymers have been synthesized in a controlled fashion demonstrating predictable molecular weight and narrow molecular weight distributions. Table I depicts various poly (t-butylstyrene)-b-poly(t-butyl methacrylate) (PTBS-PTBMA) and poly(methyl methacrylate)-b-poly(t-butyl methacrylate) (PMMA-PTBMA) samples. In addition, all-acrylic block copolymers based on poly(2-ethylhexyl methacrylate)-b-poly(t-butyl methacrylate) have been recently synthesized and offer many unique possibilities due to the low glass transition temperature of PEHMA. In most cases, a range of 5-25 wt.% of alkyl methacrylate was incorporated into the block copolymer. This composition not only facilitated solubility during subsequent hydrolysis but also limited the maximum level of derived ionic functionality. 

Weight average molecular weights of poly(HAMCL) with saturated or unsaturated pendent groups are relatively low, compared to Mw s of poly(HASCL), and in the range of 60,000 to 360,000 g mol as depicted in Table 2 [4,30,35,36]. Also for the poly(HAMCL) copolymers, the molecular weight distributions are unimodal. Their polydispersities are in the range of 1.6-2.4, which is narrower than the polydispersity of poly(3HB-co-3HV) copolymers, and close to the theoretical value of 2.0 for synthetic polycondensates such as chemically synthesized polyesters [54]. 

Narrow molecular weight distribution PMMA-fc-poly(2-perfluorooclyle-thyl methacrylate) block copolymers (Scheme 2) were synthesized in THF at... 

HPMA [36] and a vinyl metal-chelating monomer A-(A/, A/ -dicarboxy-methylaminopropyl)methacrylamide synthesized [35]. Chemical structures of HPMA and DAMA are given in Figure 4. Poly(HPMA-co-DAMA) was prepared by free radical copolymerization in methanol with AIBN as initiator. Molecular weight distribution was determined by size exclusion chromatography and content of side-chain carboxylic group by acid-base titration. 

As mentioned above, the new method Lewis acid promoted living polymerization of methacrylic esters, by using enolatealuminum porphyrin (2) as nucleophilic initiator in conjunction with organoaluminum compounds, such as methylaluminum bis(2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenolate) (3e), as Lewis acids has enabled us to synthesize poly(methacrylic ester) of narrow molecular-weight distribution [51]. On the other hand, some reactions of aluminum por-... 

For compounds bearing acrylate or methacrylate groups, the copolymer compositions were almost the same as the monomer feed compositions, and the molecular weights were nearly identical to that of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) synthesized as a control under the same reaction conditions. In addition, the dye-bearing repeat units were present uniformly in all molecular weights, as seen by comparing GPC molecular weight distribution curves determined by differential refractometry and by visible absorbance detection at the X of the... 

Amphiphilic block copolymers of SCB and methacrylic acid (and methacrylic acid derivatives) with narrow molecular weight distribution can be synthesized by sequential addition of 1,1-diphenylethylene and methacrylate or its derivatives to living poly(silacyclobutane) in the presence of lithium chloride (Scheme 12) <2001PSA86, 1998PSA2699, 1999MM6088>. 

Denkewalter et al. 4 synthesized a series of terf-butoxycarbonyl-protected poly(a,e-L-lysine) macromolecules (see above, Scheme 4.3), whose molecular models suggested them to be globular, dense spheres and whose molecular weight distribution was determined to be very narrow (MJM = 1.0). Since each generation in this series was synthesized in a stepwise manner, each member was predicted to have a monodisperse molecular weight. 

Coombes and Katchalski [29] have considered a slightly more complex version of this mechanism in which a second propagation coefficient operates above a critical degree of polymerization. Katchalski et al. [30] calculated the molecular weight distribution obtained in a system following scheme (12) but also including a bimolecular termination step. Various authors have analysed more complex systems in which the initiator is a polymeric species. Thus Gold [31] has shown that initiation by a poly a-amino acid with a Poisson distribution leads to a polymeric product with an over-all Poisson distribution, and Katchalski et al. [32] demonstrated that in multichain polymers synthesized from polyfunctional initiators Poisson distributions also arise. 

In contrast, the formation of the primary wall results in a lower degree of polymerization, around 6000, and a broad molecular weight distribution (Marx-Figini, 1969). The quantity of cellulose synthesized in the primary wall is small, it is poly disperse, and of low molecular weight. 

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