Abstract
Homopolymerization of methyl acrylate (MA) and methyl methacrylate (MMA) by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) were carried out at 90 °C using methyl-2-bromopropionate (MBP) as initiator, copper halide (CuX, X=Cl, Br) as catalyst, 2,2 ′-bipyridine (bpy) or N, N, N ′, N ′, N ″-pentamethyldiethylenetriamine (PMDETA) as ligand in 1-butanol (less polar and containing OH) and acetonitrile (more polar) solvents. It was found that with CuCl/bpy catalyst ATRP of MA and MMA in 1-butanol proceeded faster than that in acetonitrile. The rate of ATRP of MA and MMA in acetonitrile and 1-butanol was comparable when CuCl/PMDETA used as catalyst system. The number–average molecular weights ( M n ) increased with conversion and polydispersities were low ( M w / M n <1.5) . The ATRP of MA and MMA with vinyl acetate telomer having trichloromethyl end group (PVAc-CCl 3) were also used to synthesize new block copolymers. The structures and molecular weight of synthesized PVAc-b-PMA and PVAc-b-PMMA were characterized by 1H NMR, FTIR spectroscopy and gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and shown that the block copolymers were novel.
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