Issue 4, 2010
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Polymer Chemistry

Copper(0)-mediated living radical polymerization of styrene

Jessica Tom,a   Ben Hornby,a   Andrew West,a   Simon Harrisson*b  and  Sébastien Perrier*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Centre for Polymers and Colloids, School of Chemistry, Building F11, The University of Sydney, Australia
E-mail: s.perrier@chem.usyd.edu.au

b CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, Bayview Ave, Clayton, Australia
E-mail: simon.harrisson@csiro.au

Abstract

We report the controlled polymerization of styrene using zerovalent copper and conventional ATRP ligands as catalysts at 90 °C in toluene. Commercially available PMDETA was found to provide the best control, with good agreement between measured and theoretical molecular weight and a polydispersity of 1.24. This could be reduced to 1.17 by addition of a small amount of Cu(II)Br2.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B9PY00382G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Dec 2009
Accepted
22 Feb 2010
First published
19 Mar 2010

Polym. Chem., 2010,1, 420-422

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Copper(0)-mediated living radical polymerization of styrene

J. Tom, B. Hornby, A. West, S. Harrisson and S. Perrier, Polym. Chem., 2010, 1, 420 DOI: 10.1039/B9PY00382G

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