Issue 18, 2009
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

RAFT-functional ionic liquids: towards understanding controlled free radical polymerisation in ionic liquids†

Simon Puttick,a   Derek J. Irvine,ab   Peter Licence*a  and  Kristofer J. Thurecht*ac  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom
E-mail: k.thurecht@uq.edu.au
Tel: +44 (0)115 9513486

b School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

c Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and Centre for Magnetic Resonance, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia

Abstract

RAFT controlled polymerisation of methyl methacrylate in various room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) was carried out to investigate the effect of the anion on both propagation rate and control of molecular weight; a novel RAFT-tethered ionic liquid was prepared by “click” type chemistry to act as a compatibiliser thereby overcoming partitioning effects that were observed with the free RAFT agent and resulted in high levels of control never before achieved using RAFT in such a broad range of RTILs.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B817181P
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Sep 2008
Accepted
23 Mar 2009
First published
01 Apr 2009

J. Mater. Chem., 2009,19, 2679-2682

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S. Puttick, D. J. Irvine, P. Licence and K. J. Thurecht, J. Mater. Chem., 2009, 19, 2679 DOI: 10.1039/B817181P

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