Structures living polymerization

The reaction of radicals with nitroxides is reversible. 09 This means that the highest temperature that the technique can reasonably be employed at is ca 80 °C for tertiary propagating species and ca 120 °C for secondary propagating species.22 These maximum temperatures are only guidelines. The stability of alkoxyamines is also dependent on solvent (polar solvents favor decomposition) and the structure of the trapped species. This chemistry has led to certain alkoxyamines being useful as initiators of living polymerization (Section 9.3.6). At elevated temperatures nitroxides are observed to add to monomer albeit slowly. 3IS 5" 523... 

Chain transfer to methacrylate and similar maeromonomers has been discussed in Section 6.2.3.4. The first papers on the use of this process to achieve some of the characteristics of living polymerization appeared in 1995.380 The structure of macromonomer RAFT agents (163) is shown in Figure 9.3. An idealized reaction scheme for the case of a MMA terminated macromonomer is shown in Scheme 9.36. 

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The purpose of this paper is to thoroughly discuss the ability of anionic living polymerization methods to yield tailor-made polymers, and to discuss a number of examples of structures that have been obtained by these methods and adequately characterized. 

Structurally related complexes are also active initiators for the living polymerization of carbo-diimides (which are isoelectronic to isocyanates).1003 The proposed intermediate for this polymerization process is a metal amidinate (Scheme 29), and the model complex (349) has been reported to be a highly efficient catalyst, polymerizing 500 equivalents of di- -hexylcarbodiimide in less than 10 s. A more hydrolytically robust series of initiators has also been developed, based upon copper(I) and copper(II) amidinates.1004... 

A Ta vinylalkylidene complex 6, confirmed by a single crystal X-ray analysis, was revealed to polymerize 2-butyne in a manner of living polymerization.The initiation efficiency is quantitative, and the living end can be end-capped with aromatic aldehydes. As polymers from symmetric acetylenes are generally insoluble, soluble poly(2-butyne) is accessible if the degree of polymerization is suppressed below 200. The NMR analysis of living oligomers of 2-butyne clearly indicates that both cis- and 7ra r-structures exist in the main chain. 

Well-controlled polymerization of substituted acetylenes was also reported. A tetracoordinate organorhodium complex induces the stereospecific living polymerization of phenylacetylene.600 The polymerization proceeds via a 2-1 -insertion mechanism to provide stereoregular poly(phenylacetylene) with m-transoidal backbone structure. Rh complexes were also used in the same process in supercritical C02601 and in the polymerization of terminal alkyl- and arylacetylenes.602 Single-component transition-metal catalysts based on Ni acetylides603 and Pd acet-ylides604 were used in the polymerization of p-diethynylbenzene. 

The living polymerization process offers enormous flexibility in the design of polymers. It is possible to control terminal functional groups, pendant groups, monomer sequencing along the mam chain (including the order of addition and blockiness), steric structure, and spatial shape. 

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