A Cyclic Macromonomer Designed for a Novel Polymer Network Architecture Having Both Covalent and Physical Linkages

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  • Hideaki Oike
    Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
  • Takayuki Mouri
    Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
  • Yasuyuki Tezuka
    Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan

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A methacrylate-functionalized, cyclic poly(tetrahydrofuran), poly(THF) (1m), has been synthesized and copolymerized through a free-radical mechanism involving methyl methacrylate (MMA) and using 2,2'-azobisisobutyronitrile as the initiator in benzene at 65 °C. A copolymer product with cyclic poly(THF) branches was produced initially, with gelation taking place at a later stage of the reaction. In contrast, no gelation was observed either in the quantitative-conversion copolymerization of a related methacrylate-functionalized, open-chain poly(THF) with MMA or in the quantitative homopolymerization of MMA in the presence of a methacrylate-free, cyclic poly(THF). These results demonstrate that the propagating polymer segment threaded the large but constrained cyclic polymer branches covalently attached to the polymer backbone, to produce a novel polymer network architecture having both covalent and physical linkages.

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  • Macromolecules

    Macromolecules 34 (18), 6229-6234, 2001-08-01

    American Chemical Society (ACS)

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