Issue 93, 2017
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Chemical Communications

Chlorophyll a crude extract: efficient photo-degradable photocatalyst for PET-RAFT polymerization†

Chenyu Wu, ORCID logo ab   Sivaprakash Shanmugam,a   Jiangtao Xu, ORCID logo ab   Jian Zhu ORCID logo *c  and  Cyrille Boyer ORCID logo *ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
E-mail: cboyer@unsw.edu.au

b Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

c Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
E-mail: chemzhujian@suda.edu.cn
Fax: +86 512 65882787
Tel: +86 512 65880726

Abstract

We investigated the use of crude chlorophyll extracts to catalyze photoinduced electron/energy transfer-reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (PET-RAFT) polymerization under red light irradiation. We discovered that Chl a degrades under visible light in the presence of air, which can eliminate the need for catalyst removal after polymerization.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC07663K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Oct 2017
Accepted
02 Nov 2017
First published
08 Nov 2017

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 12560-12563

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Chlorophyll a crude extract: efficient photo-degradable photocatalyst for PET-RAFT polymerization

C. Wu, S. Shanmugam, J. Xu, J. Zhu and C. Boyer, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 12560 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC07663K

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