Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization of Vinyl Chloride at Low Temperature: Kinetic and Computational Studies

Autor: Julien Nicolas, Patrícia V. Mendonça, Arménio C. Serra, Carlos M. R. Abreu, Michelle L. Coote, Benjamin B. Noble, Tamaz Guliashvili, Jorge F. J. Coelho
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Macromolecules. 49:490-498
ISSN: 1520-5835
0024-9297
Popis: The synthesis of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) by nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) using the SG1-based BlocBuilder alkoxyamine at low temperature (30 and 42 °C) is reported. The reaction system was studied regarding the nature of the solvent, the monomer-to-solvent ratio, the polymerization temperature, and the target molecular weight. First-order kinetics and linear evolutions of the molecular weight with vinyl chloride (VC) conversion were obtained in dichloromethane (DCM) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) together with decreasing dispersities (Đ) down to 1.59–1.47. The resulting PVC was fully characterized by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H NMR), 31P NMR, and size exclusion chromatography (SEC). The 1H NMR and 31P NMR revealed the existence of very small content of structural defects and the presence of chain-end functional groups (∼91% SG1 chain-end functionality). Chain extension experiments were performed with VC, methyl methacrylate (MMA), and a mixture of monomers (90% of MMA and 10...
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