This work developed a perfluorinated anion-assisted strategy to facilitate the mechanochemical cationic RAFT polymerization of vinyl ethers. This approach enabled the preparation of high-molecular-weight poly(vinyl ether)s.
The cationic RAFT polymerization of vinyl ethers, driven by a mechanoredox process, has been successfully demonstrated, allowing for the synthesis of well-defined poly(vinyl ether) under solvent-free and ambient conditions.
Electrochemical chain-growth polymerization has emerged as a powerful tool in polymer chemistry. Recent progress made in radical, ionic and ring-opening polymerizations and the applications enabled by use of an electric field to perform such reactions is reported.
A radical promoted cationic reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization of various vinyl ethers via photo electron transfer reaction was developed and applied in photocuring.
Selective chemical upcycling of poly(isobutyl vinyl ether) was achieved using photooxidative degradation, producing oxidized small molecules that can be tuned depending on a choice of photocatalysts.