Water-Soluble Ionic Liquids as Novel Stabilizers in Suspension Polymerization Reactions: Engineering Polymer Beads
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Guerrero-Sanchez, Carlos; Erdmenger, Tina; Sereda, Petr; Wouters, Daan; Schubert, Ulrich S.
- Abstract:
- Aqueous solutions of ionic
liquids have been used as novel and environmentally
friendly reaction media
to synthesize and “control” the size of
different cross-linked polymer beads by
suspension polymerization reactions. It
was found that the investigated ionic
liquids can act as novel stabilizing
agents of the suspensions as a result of
their surface-active properties. The results
have demonstrated that the average
size of polymer beads can be
varied from the macro- to the nanoscale
and their surface area can also be
“adjusted” by this synthetic approach.
Furthermore, the use of a combination
of ionic liquids and water for the synthesis
of polymers, the simple isolation
of the products formed in this polymerization
procedure, as well as the recycling
of the continuous medium for further
reactions open up possibilities for
the development of “new and green”
polymerization processes.
- Year:
- 2006
- Type of Publication:
- Article
- Keywords:
- combinatorial chemistry; cross-linked polymer beads; green chemistry; ionic liquids; ionic surfactants; suspension polymerization
- Journal:
- Chemistry - A European Journal
- Volume:
- 12
- Pages:
- 9036 - 9045