Issue 6, 2004
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Chemical Communications

Living cationic polymerisation of styrene in an ionic liquid†

R. Vijayaraghavan‡a  and  D. R. MacFarlane*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for Green Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
E-mail: D.MacFarlane@sci.monash.edu.au

Abstract

For the first time, living cationic polymerisation of styrene has been carried out in room temperature ionic liquids under mild reaction conditions and using mild acid catalysts (e.g. organoborate acids) to obtain polymers of narrow polydispersity.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B315100J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 Nov 2003
Accepted
20 Jan 2004
First published
13 Feb 2004

Chem. Commun., 2004, 700-701

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