Pushing the Limit of the RAFT Process: Multiblock Copolymers by One-Pot Rapid Multiple Chain Extensions at Full Monomer Conversion

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• 作者：Guillaume Gody ; Thomas Maschmeyer ; Per B. Zetterlund ; S茅bastien Perrier
• 刊名：Macromolecules
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：May 27, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：47
• 期：10
• 页码：3451-3460
• 全文大小：656K
• 年卷期：v.47,no.10(May 27, 2014)
• ISSN：1520-5835

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We describe an optimized method to prepare multiblock copolymers. The approach is based on our previously reported use of reversible addition鈥揻ragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization, which here has been optimized into a fast, versatile, efficient, and scalable process. The one-pot, multistep sequential polymerization proceeds in water, to quantitative yields (>99%) for each monomer addition, thus circumventing requirements for intermediate purification, in 2 h of polymerization per block. The optimization of the process is initially demonstrated via the synthesis of a model decablock homopolymer (10 blocks) of 4-acryloylmorpholine with an average degree of polymerization of 10 for each block (膼 = 1.15 and livingness >93% for the final polymer). Both the potential and the limitations of this approach are illustrated by the synthesis of more complex high-order multiblock copolymers: a dodecablock copolymer (12 blocks with 4 different acrylamide monomers) with an average degree of polymerization of 10 for each block and two higher molecular weight pentablock copolymers (5 blocks with 3 different acrylamide monomers) with an average degree of polymerization of 100 per block.