Simultaneous control of the stereospecificity and molecular weight in the ruthenium‐catalyzed living radical polymerization of methyl and 2‐hydroxyethyl methacrylates and sequential synthesis of stereoblock polymers
Simultaneous control of the stereospecificity and molecular weight in the ruthenium‐catalyzed living radical polymerization of methyl and 2‐hydroxyethyl methacrylates and sequential synthesis of stereoblock polymers
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10.1002/pola.21469
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2006-06
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T. Shibata;K. Satoh;M. Kamigaito;Y. Okamoto
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T. Shibata;K. Satoh;M. Kamigaito;Y. Okamoto
The stereospecific living radical polymerizations of methyl methacrylate (MMA) and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) were achieved with a combination of ruthenium-catalyzed living radical and solvent-mediated stereospecific radical polymerizations. Among a series of ruthenium complexes [RuCl2(PPh3)3, Ru(Ind)Cl(PPh3)2, and RuCp*Cl(PPh3)2], Cp*–ruthenium afforded poly(methyl methacrylate) with highly controlled molecular weights [weight-average molecular weight/number-average molecular weight (Mw/Mn) = 1.08] and high syndiotacticity (r = 88%) in a fluoroalcohol such as (CF3)2C(Ph)OH at 0 °C. On the other hand, a hydroxy-functionalized monomer, HEMA, was polymerized with RuCp*Cl(PPh3)2 in N,N-dimethylformamide and N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA) to give syndiotactic polymers (r = 87–88%) with controlled molecular weights (Mw/Mn = 1.12–1.16). This was the first example of the syndiospecific living radical polymerization of HEMA. A fluoroalcohol [(CF3)2C(Ph)OH], which induced the syndiospecific radical polymerization of MMA, reduced the syndiospecificity in the HEMA polymerization to result in more or less atactic polymers (mm/mr/rr = 7.2/40.9/51.9%) with controlled molecular weights in the presence of RuCp*Cl(PPh3)2 at 80 °C. A successive living radical polymerization of HEMA in two solvents, first DMA followed by (CF3)2C(Ph)OH, resulted in stereoblock poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) with syndiotactic–atactic segments. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 3609–3615, 2006