Abstract
Copper-mediated radical polymerization of acrylates was carried out in micro- and milliscale UV continuous flow reactors in the absence of conventional photoinitiators.
Highlights
Flowreactor technology (MRT) has recently gained increasing attention since its offers a wide range of new possibilities for academic research and industrial production in the polymer eld.[1,2,3,4] Flow reactions feature several advantages over batch processes
Based on the novel photo-polymerization protocol introduced by Haddleton and coworkers, we demonstrate for the case of methyl acrylate, how this polymerization can be optimized for micro- and milli ow with high efficiency and short reaction times
The tubular reactor is less sophisticated, but allows synthesis of materials at a signi cant scale due to the much higher internal volume
Summary
Flow (micro)reactor technology (MRT) has recently gained increasing attention since its offers a wide range of new possibilities for academic research and industrial production in the polymer eld.[1,2,3,4] Flow reactions feature several advantages over batch processes. At the same time – and this is a distinct advantage of chain reactions – materials of higher quality and overall yields can be obtained from MRT due to the higher stability that is offered by ow systems combined with the more de ned reaction conditions that can be achieved. Polymer click conjugations and click-like polymer modi cations have been added to the available portfolio of ow reactions.[10,11]
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