Issue 11, 2009
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Chemical Communications

Ultra-fast RAFT polymerisation of poly(ethylene glycol) acrylate in aqueous media under mild visible light radiation at 25 °C

Yi Shi,ab   Huan Gao,ac   Lican Luad  and  Yuanli Cai*abcd  

* Corresponding authors

a College of Chemistry, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, China
E-mail: ylcai98@xtu.edu.cn
Fax: +86-732-8292251
Tel: +86-732-8298876

b Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly Chemistry and Applications of Ministry of Education, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, China

c Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymeric Materials of College of Hunan Province, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, China

d Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials & Application Technology of Hunan Province, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, China

Abstract

Mild visible light was sufficient to activate RAFT polymerisation of poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate in 50 wt% water at 25 °C, leading to an ultra-fast and well-controlled living RAFT polymerisation with more than 80% monomer conversion; this is the first example of an ultra-fast RAFT polymerisation under such environmentally friendly mild aqueous conditions.

Graphical abstract: Ultra-fast RAFT polymerisation of poly(ethylene glycol) acrylate in aqueous media under mild visible light radiation at 25 °C

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B821486G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
01 Dec 2008
Accepted
22 Dec 2008
First published
20 Jan 2009

Chem. Commun., 2009, 1368-1370

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Ultra-fast RAFT polymerisation of poly(ethylene glycol) acrylate in aqueous media under mild visible light radiation at 25 °C

Y. Shi, H. Gao, L. Lu and Y. Cai, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1368 DOI: 10.1039/B821486G

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