Sequential synthesis of multiblock copolymers by atom transfer radical and cationic polymerization

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العنوان: Sequential synthesis of multiblock copolymers by atom transfer radical and cationic polymerization
المؤلفون: Toman, Luděk, Janata, Miroslav, Spěváček, Jiří, Vlček, Petr, Látalová, Petra, Masař, Bohumil, Sikora, Antonín
المصدر: Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry; December 2004, Vol. 42 Issue: 23 p6098-6108, 11p
مستخلص: ABCBA‐type pentablock copolymers of methyl methacrylate (MMA), styrene (S), and isobutylene (IB) were prepared by a three‐step synthesis, which included atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and cationic polymerization: (1) poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) with terminal chlorine atoms was prepared by ATRP initiated with an aromatic difunctional initiator bearing two trichloromethyl groups under CuCl/2,2′‐bipyridine catalysis; (2) PMMA with the same catalyst was used for ATRP of styrene, which produced a poly(S‐b‐MMA‐b‐S) triblock copolymer; and (3) IB was polymerized cationically in the presence of the aforementioned triblock copolymer and BCl3, and this produced a poly(IB‐b‐S‐b‐MMA‐b‐S‐b‐IB) pentablock copolymer. The reaction temperature, varied from −78 to −25 °C, significantly affected the IB content in the product; the highest was obtained at −25 °C. The formation of a pentablock copolymer with a narrow molecular weight distribution provided direct evidence of the presence of active chlorine at the ends of the poly(S‐b‐MMA‐b‐S) triblock copolymer, capable of the initiation of the cationic polymerization of IB in the presence of BCl3. A differential scanning calorimetry trace of the pentablock copolymer (20.1 mol % IB) showed the glass‐transition temperatures of three segregated domains, that is, polyisobutylene (−87.4 °C), polystyrene (95.6 °C), and PMMA (103.7 °C) blocks. One glass‐transition temperature (104.5 °C) was observed for the aforementioned triblock copolymer. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 42: 6098–6108, 2004
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تدمد:0887624X
10990518
DOI:10.1002/pola.20369