Issue 1, 2012
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Polymer Chemistry

Macromolecular design of poly(vinyl alcohol) by RAFT polymerization

Anton A. A. Smith,a   Thomas Hussmann,a   Joseph Elich,†a   Almar Postma,b   Marie-Helene Alvesa  and  Alexander N. Zelikin*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
E-mail: zelikin@chem.au.dk

b CSIRO—Materials Science and Engineering, Clayton, VIC, Australia

Abstract

Reversible Addition–Fragmentation chain Transfer polymerization (RAFT) is employed herein to obtain the first example of poly(vinyl alcohol), PVA, with controlled molecular weight and terminal aminegroups thus presenting a flexible tool for materials design and bioconjugation. Furthermore, we demonstrate that RAFT control can be used to facilitate syndiotactic chain propagation and obtain PVA with the highest reported content of syndiotactic dyad (∼78%).

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1PY00429H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Sep 2011
Accepted
25 Sep 2011
First published
19 Oct 2011

Polym. Chem., 2012,3, 85-88

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Macromolecular design of poly(vinyl alcohol) by RAFT polymerization

A. A. A. Smith, T. Hussmann, J. Elich, A. Postma, M. Alves and A. N. Zelikin, Polym. Chem., 2012, 3, 85 DOI: 10.1039/C1PY00429H

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