Automated Parallel Temperature Optimization and Activation Energy Determination for the Living Cationic Polymerization of 2 Ethyl-2-oxazoline

Hoogenboom, Richard; Fijten, Martin W. M.; Brändli, Christof; Schroer, Josef; Schubert, Ulrich S.

Abstract:

Sixteen parallel polymerization reactions of 2-ethyl-2-oxazoline have been performed at different temperatures in an automated synthesizer that allowed individual heating of each reactor. During the reactions samples were taken automatically, which were characterized by means of both online GPC and offline GC, in order to optimize the reaction temperature and to determine the activation energy of the polymerization.

Year:

2003

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

activation energy; automated optimization; high throughput experimentation; living cationic polymerization; parallel chemistry; poly 2 oxazolines

Journal:

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volume:

24

Pages:

98 – 103