A series of mesoporous silica (MS) materials, including rod-like and spherical SBA-15, MCM-41, MCM-48, was successfully synthesized modified by silane coupling agent γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane. The MS utilized as a microreactor for solution reversible addition–fragmentation transfer (RAFT) polymerization methyl methacrylate (MMA) using xanthate chain azodiisobutyronitrile an initiator. Notabl...

The search for renewable monomers radical polymerization techniques is of current interest due to the awareness sustainability requirements in chemical sciences. Herein, synthesis and reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) a methacrylate monomer based on ricinoleic acid as sustainable starting material presented. In addition, hydroxy moiety converted an acetoacetate order allow...

Controlled radical polymerization of N-vinylcarbazole (NVK) via microwave-assisted reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization is described. As chain transfer agent, 1,3,5-benzyl tri (diethyldithiocarbamate), was used. The chain transfer agent, containing a 1.3.5-trisubstituted benzene ring as core and three dithiocarbamate functionalities attached through an intermed...

Towards the development of (bio)degradable polymers with medical relevance a non-radical thiolene synthesis route is investigated. In this work, step growth polymerization based on Michael addition click reactions is presented. Homotelechelic RAFT polymers were conjugated leading to polymers with molar weight distribution typical for a step growth polymerization, tailing up to 100 000 g∙mol-1 i...

The reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) of N-vinyl caprolactam (NVCL) using two new xanthates with alkyne functionalities is reported. The kinetic data obtained for polymerization of this non-activated monomer using a protected alkyne-terminated RAFT agent (PAT-X1) revealed a linear increase of the polymer molecular weight with the monomer conversion as well as low dispersit...

This review summarizes the state of the art in the synthesis of well-defined glycopolymers by Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerization (RDRP) from its inception in 1998 until August 2012. Glycopolymers architectures have been successfully synthesized with four major RDRP techniques: Nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization (NMP), cyanoxyl-mediated radical polymerization (CMRP), atom tran...

To address the practical issues of polymer molecular weight determination, the first accurate polymer weight-average molecular weight determination method in diverse living/controlled polymerization via DOSY (diffusion-ordered NMR spectroscopy) is reported. Based on the linear correlation between the logarithm of diffusion coefficient (log D) and the molecular weights (log Mw), external calibra...