Photoinduced electron transfer-reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (PET-RAFT) polymerization using titanium dioxide

Bo-Fei Cheng; Long-Hai Wang; Ye-Zi You

Macromolecular Research, Vol.24, No.9, 811-815, September, 2016

DOI10.1007/s13233-016-4106-5 Export Citation

Photoinduced electron transfer-reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (PET-RAFT) polymerization using titanium dioxide

Bo-Fei Cheng, Long-Hai Wang, and Ye-Zi You^†

Key Lab of Soft Matter Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China

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Photoinitiated living radical polymerization has attracted wide attention in recent years. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a kind of semi-conducting metal oxide which is widely used in water treatment, photovoltaics and organic synthesis. However, there is few application in living radical polymerization. In this study, photoinduced electron transfer-reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (PET-RAFT) polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) using TiO2 as photoredox catalyst is successfully carried out. It offers good control over molecular weights and polydispersities (PDI). The end group fidelity of PMMA is successfully demonstrated by chain extension for the preparation of poly(methyl methacrylate)-b-poly(dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) (PMMA-b-PDMAEMA) copolymer. Moreover, the polymerization can be controlled by switching “ON” and “OFF” the light.

Keywords:living radical polymerization;photoredox catalyst;photoinduced electron transfer;titanium dioxide

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