Click chemistry meets polymerization: Controlled incorporation of an easily accessible ruthenium(II) complex into a PMMA backbone via RAFT copolymerization

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3433-3441

  Happ, Bobby ^a,b   Friebe, Christian ^a,b   Winter, Andreas ^b,c   Hager, Martin D ^a,b   Schubert, Ulrich S ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Copper(I) catalyzed azide alkyne cycloaddition; Poly(methyl methacrylate); RAFT copolymerization; Ruthenium(II) complexes

Indexed keywords

AZIDE-ALKYNE CYCLOADDITION; CLICK CHEMISTRY; CO-MONOMER; COPPER(I)-CATALYZED AZIDE-ALKYNE CYCLOADDITION; FUNCTIONALIZED; GRAFTED COPOLYMERS; H NMR SPECTROSCOPY; HETEROLEPTIC; METHYL METHACRYLATES; PHOTODIODE ARRAY DETECTORS; POLYDISPERSITY INDICES; RAFT COPOLYMERIZATION; RAFT PROCESS; REVERSIBLE ADDITION-FRAGMENTATION CHAIN TRANSFER POLYMERIZATION; RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES; RUTHENIUM(II) COMPLEXES; UV/ VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

ACETYLENE; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; CYCLOADDITION; ESTERS; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYDISPERSITY; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ACRYLIC MONOMERS;

EID: 70449511060     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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