Issue 45, 2018
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Polymer Chemistry

Acetone: a solvent or a reagent depending on the addition order in SET-LRP†

Adrian Moreno, ORCID logo ab   Jānis Lejnieks,a   Marina Galià, ORCID logo b   Gerard Lligadas ORCID logo *ab  and  Virgil Percec ORCID logo *a  

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a Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA
E-mail: gerard.lligadas@urv.cat, percec@sas.upenn.edu

b Laboratory of Sustainable Polymers, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Abstract

Depending on the order of addition to the reaction mixture during biphasic SET-LRP performed in acetone/water mixtures, acetone can serve as a solvent or as a reagent brominated by CuBr2 to provide the electrophilic bromoacetone initiator as well as aldol condensation products.

Graphical abstract: Acetone: a solvent or a reagent depending on the addition order in SET-LRP

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8PY01331D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Sep 2018
Accepted
26 Oct 2018
First published
29 Oct 2018

Polym. Chem., 2018,9, 5411-5417

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Acetone: a solvent or a reagent depending on the addition order in SET-LRP

A. Moreno, J. Lejnieks, M. Galià, G. Lligadas and V. Percec, Polym. Chem., 2018, 9, 5411 DOI: 10.1039/C8PY01331D

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