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Raft Synthesis Of Water-Soluble, Stimuli-Responsive Ab Diblock Copolymers, Ran Wang
Raft Synthesis Of Water-Soluble, Stimuli-Responsive Ab Diblock Copolymers, Ran Wang
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A series of water-soluble, stimuli-responsive AB diblock copolymers were synthesized via the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization technique employing 2-(2- carboxyethylsulfanylthiocarbonylsulfanyl)propionic acid (CTA26) as the RAFT mediating agent.
First, a series of diacid functional trithiocarbonate chain transfer agents (CTA's) were synthesized and examined for their effectiveness as mediating agents in controlling the polymerization of «-butyl acrylate (nBA). Overall, CTA26 demonstrated good control in the homopolymerization of nBA with respect to the molecular weight and the molecular weight distribution, as well as its ability to form block copolymers with high reinitiating efficiency, and thus was chosen as the CTA for …