Anionic polymerization of ethyl acrylate initiated by tetrabutylammonium azide: direct synthesis of end-clickable polyacrylate. Issue 26 (17th May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kataoka, Yuki; Kohsaka, Yasuhiro; Kitaura, Takehiro; Domae, Shogo; Ishihara, Shoya; Kitayama, Tatsuki
• Is Part Of: Polymer chemistry. Volume 8:Issue 26(2017)
• Page Start: 3858
• Page End: 3861
• Publication Date: 2017-05-17
• Subjects: Polymers -- Periodicals; Macromolecules -- Periodicals; Polymerization -- Periodicals; 547.705
• DOI: 10.1039/c7py00560a
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1759-9954

Abstract

Abstract : Tetrabutylammonium azide, a weak nucleophile, was found to initiate the living anionic polymerization of ethyl acrylate in the presence of alkylaluminum bisphenoxides as monomer activators to afford clickable azide-end polymers. Abstract : Tetrabutylammonium azide was found to initiate the anionic polymerization of ethyl acrylate (EA) in the presence of alkylaluminum bisphenoxides in toluene to afford azide-end polymers with narrow molecular weight distributions in quantitative yields. The resulting polymers showed high enough reactivity for the copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition.