Parallel Kinetic Investigation of 2 Oxazoline Polymerizations Utilizing Different Initiators as Basis for Designed Copolymer Synthesis
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Hoogenboom, Richard; Fijten, Martin W. M.; Schubert, Ulrich S.
- Abstract:
- The systematical kinetic investigations of four 2-substituted-2-oxazoline
monomers with four initiators at two temperatures and four monomer/initiator ratios
are described. To cover this broad range of variables (128 different combinations), an
automated synthesizer was used to accelerate the investigations and to provide highly
comparable results. With both gas chromatography and gel permeation chromatography,
the livingness and the polymerization rates were determined for the different
polymerizations. The resulting insights in the kinetics were used for the directed
synthesis of truly random copolymers and copolymers with composition drift.
- Year:
- 2004
- Type of Publication:
- Article
- Keywords:
- automated synthesis; high throughput experimentation; cationic polymerization; living polymerization; ring opening polymerization; poly 2 oxazoline
- Journal:
- Journal of Polymer Science: Part A: Polymer Chemistry
- Volume:
- 42
- Pages:
- 1830 – 1840