Abstract
Benzyl ethyl trithiocarbonate (BET) mediated reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization was carried out in dry 1,4-dioxane medium at 85 °C to synthesize Poly(n-Butyl Acrylate) (PBA) with pre-determined molecular weight (Mn 7999), narrow polydispersity (PDI 1.13) and precise chain end structure. The end chain functionality of macro chain transfer agent (CTA) was proved by homo-chain and hetero-chain extension polymerization experiment to get the poly (n-Butyl Acrylate) (Mn 17902) and poly (n-Butyl Acrylate)-b-poly(N-Vinyl Pyrrolidone) di-block copolymer (Mn 16029) respectively. Resulting polymers were characterized by 1H NMR, FTIR, GPC, TGA-DTA, DTG, DSC. The kinetic investigations confirmed the pseudo-first-order kinetic of the homopolymerization and linear evolution of the molar mass w.r.t. conversion within the range of polydispersity (PDI) (1.11 –1.20) in dry 1, 4-dioxane medium. The cyto-toxicities of PBA Macro CTA and PBA-b-PNVP polymers were evaluated on RAW264.7 mouse macrophage cells. The cellular viability was found to be 60.31% and 77.83% at 250 μM concentration, respectively for the two polymers. The viability was found more at high concentrations of polymers. The mechanism of cell death associated with these polymers was further evaluated in terms of apoptosis and necrosis on MCF-7 cell lines. Both the polymers induced apoptotic-like changes in MCF-7 cells.
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