Acetyl Halide Initiator Screening for the Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerization of 2-Ethyl-2-Oxazoline
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Paulus, Renzo M.; Becer, C. Remzi; Hoogenboom, Richard; Schubert, Ulrich S.
- Abstract:
- Kinetic investigations on the cationic ring-opening polymerization of 2-ethyl-2-oxazoline
were conducted using acetyl chloride, acetyl bromide, and acetyl iodide as initiators. Various
polymerization temperatures ranging from 80 to 220 8C were applied under microwave
irradiation. The resulting polymerization mixtures
were characterized with GC and GPC for
the determination of monomer conversion and
molecular weight distribution, respectively.
Well defined polymers with narrow molecular
weight distributions (Mn;GPC 6 000 Dalton,
PDI1.10) were obtained with all three
initiators.
- Year:
- 2008
- Type of Publication:
- Article
- Journal:
- Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
- Volume:
- 209
- Pages:
- 794 - 800