Abstract
Compared to amines as coinitiators applied in photopolymerization, benzodioxole derivatives exhibit similar reactivity but less yellowing and lower toxicity. In this paper, a series of unimolecular type II photoinitiators, containing coumarins as chromophores and benzodioxoles as coinitiators, were synthesized. The substituents with different electron donating/withdrawing abilities were designed for systematical investigation of structure-property relationship. Under LED irradiation, the novel photoinitiators can induce not only free radical polymerization of acrylate monomers, but also cationic polymerization of epoxy monomers via radical promoted cationic polymerization mechanism.
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