1-(Arylmethyloxy)anthracenes: How substituents affect their photoreactivity and ability to initiate radical and cationic polymerizations

Polymer Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1022-1029

  Kageyama, Taka Aki ^a   Koizumi, Yuhta ^a   Igarashi, Tetsutaro ^a   Sakurai, Tadamitsu ^a  

^a KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cationic polymerization; initiator; photochemistry; radical polymerization; substituent effect

Indexed keywords

BOND CLEAVAGES; CARBOCATIONS; CYCLOHEXENE OXIDE; END GROUPS; ENHANCED STABILITY; HIGH YIELD; ION PAIRS; PHOTO-INITIATOR; PHOTOPRODUCTS; POLYMER YIELDS; POLYMERIZATION REACTION; REACTIVE INTERMEDIATE; REACTIVE SPECIES; SUBSTITUENT EFFECT;

ANTHRACENE; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; INITIATORS (EXPLOSIVES); OLEFINS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; POLYMERS; STYRENE;

CATIONIC POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 84870211719     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2012.57     Document Type: Article

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