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The importance of ligand reactions in Cu(0)-mediated living radical polymerisation of acrylates
Athina Anastasaki, Christopher Waldron, Paul Wilson, Ronan McHale and David M. Haddleton Polym. Chem., 2013,4, 2672-2675
DOI:
10.1039/C3PY00270E,
Communication
Ligand mediated termination events occur during the homo-polymerisation of methyl (MA) and butyl (BA) acrylate under SET-LRP (Cu(0) mediated) conditions. Careful optimization of [initiator]/[ligand] (Me6Tren) ratios is required to reduce termination in order to achieve optimum polymerisation.