Photo-Mediated RAFT Step-Growth Polymerization With Diacrylate Monomers: Investigating Versatility and Oxygen Tolerance

Samantha Marie Clouthier; Jiajia Li; Joji Tanaka; Wei You

doi:10.1002/marc.202400602

Photo-Mediated RAFT Step-Growth Polymerization With Diacrylate Monomers: Investigating Versatility and Oxygen Tolerance

Macromol Rapid Commun. 2024 Sep 23:e2400602. doi: 10.1002/marc.202400602. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Samantha Marie Clouthier¹, Jiajia Li^{1

2}, Joji Tanaka¹, Wei You¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3290, USA.
² State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China.

PMID: 39311485
DOI: 10.1002/marc.202400602

Abstract

Photomediated reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) step-growth polymerization is performed using a trithiocarbonate-based chain transfer agent (CTA) and acrylate-based monomers both with and without a photocatalyst. The versatility of photo-mediated RAFT step-growth is demonstrated by one-pot synthesis of a graft copolymer via sequential monomer addition. Furthermore, oxygen-tolerant photo-mediated RAFT step-growth is demonstrated, facilitated by the appropriate selection of photocatalyst and solvent pair (zinc tetraphenyl porphyrin [ZnTPP] and dimethyl sulfoxide [DMSO]), enabling ultralow volume polymerization under open-air conditions.

Keywords: RAFT, step‐growth; oxygen tolerance; photo‐mediated.

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