Fast Access to Amphiphilic Multiblock Architectures by the Anionic Copolymerization of Aziridines and Ethylene Oxide
Fast Access to Amphiphilic Multiblock Architectures by the Anionic Copolymerization of Aziridines and Ethylene Oxide
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DOI:
10.1021/jacs.8b08054
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发表时间:
2018-10-17
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15
通讯作者:
Wurm, Frederik R.
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作者:
Gleede, Tassilo;Rieger, Elisabeth;Wurm, Frederik R.
An ideal system for stimuli-responsive and amphiphilic (block) polymers would be the copolymerization of aziridines with epoxides. However, to date, no copolymerization of these two highly strained three-membered heterocycles had been achieved. Herein, we report the combination of the living oxy- and azaanionic ring-opening polymerization of ethylene oxide (EO) and sulfonamide-activated aziridines. In a single step, well-defined amphiphilic block copolymers are obtained by a one-pot copolymerization. Real-time H-1 NMR spectroscopy revealed the highest difference in reactivity ratios ever reported for an anionic copolymerization (with r(1) = 265 and r(2) = 0.004 for 2-methyl-N-tosylaziridine/EO and r(1) = 151 and r(2) = 0.013 for 2-methyl-N-mesylaziridine/EO), leading to the formation of block copolymers with monomodal and moderate molecular weight distributions (M-w/M-n mostly