Issue 10, 2013
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Polymer Chemistry

Living radical polymerization of vinyl acetate and methyl acrylate mediated by Co(Salen*) complexes†

Chei-Ming Liao,a   Ching-Chun Hsu,a   Fu-Sheng Wang,a   Bradford B. Waylandb  and  Chi-How Peng*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
E-mail: chpeng@mx.nthu.edu.tw

b Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA

Abstract

Vinyl acetate and methyl acrylate living radical polymerization were successfully mediated by cobalt(II) Salen* complexes. Living characters of the polymerization are demonstrated by the linear increase in molecular weight with conversion, low polydispersity (1.14–1.27), and the formation of block copolymers. The equilibrium between cobalt(II) and organo-cobalt(III) species in methyl acrylate polymerization was followed by UV-vis spectroscopy and the equilibrium constant was determined to be 2.4 × 107 M−1.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3PY00282A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Feb 2013
Accepted
14 Mar 2013
First published
14 Mar 2013

Polym. Chem., 2013,4, 3098-3104

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Living radical polymerization of vinyl acetate and methyl acrylate mediated by Co(Salen*) complexes

C. Liao, C. Hsu, F. Wang, B. B. Wayland and C. Peng, Polym. Chem., 2013, 4, 3098 DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00282A

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