Time-resolved chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization (TR-CIDNP) and laser flash photolysis (LFP) techniques have been used to measure rate constants for coupling between acrylate-type radicals and a series of newly synthesized stable imidazolidine N-oxyl radicals. The carbon-centered radicals under investigation were generated by photolysis of their corresponding ketone precursors RC(O)R (R = C(CH3)2-C(O)OCH3 and CH(CH3)-C(O)-OtBu) in the presence of stable nitroxides. The coupling rate constants kc for modeling studies of nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) experiments were determined, and the influence of steric and electronic factors on kc values was addressed by using a Hammett linear free energy relationship. The systematic changes in kc due to the varied steric (Es,n) and electronic (sigmaL,n) characters of the substituents are well-described by the biparameter equation log(kc/M- 1s(-1)) = 3.52sigmaL,n + 0.47Es,n + 10.62. Hence, kc decreases with the increasing steric demand and increases with the increasing electron-withdrawing character of the substituents on the nitroxide.
Values of kd for the CON bond homolysis were measured for alkoxyamines based on imidazoline and imidazole nitroxides. They were analyzed in terms of polar/stabilization, steric, and entropic effects. kd decreased with increasing electron‐withdrawing capacities of the groups attached to the nitroxide, but increasing with both the bulkiness of the group attached to the nitroxide and the presence of substituents on the ring. With three alkoxyamines, it was shown that the fate of the NMP of styrene depended on the type of initiating alkyl radical: successful for initiating 1‐phenylethyl radicals and unsuccessful for initiating p‐nitrophenyloxycarbonyl‐2‐prop‐2‐yl radicals.magnified image
Dedicated to the memory of Professor Hanns FischerA number of spectroscopic methods were applied to obtain kinetic parameters of reactions modelling the 2,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole 1-oxide mediated living polymerization of acrylates. The homolysis rate constants of alkoxyamines based on five nitroxides were measured by EPR spectroscopy at different temperatures. The recombination rate constants k c between the corresponding alkyl radicals and the nitroxides were measured by means of laser flash photolysis. The time-resolved chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization (TR-CIDNP) experiments revealed the negligible contribution of disproportionation in the recombination reaction. In addition, the thermodecomposition of alkoxyamines in the NMR probe showed the absence of intramolecular elimination of hydroxylamines from the corresponding alkoxyamines. Analysis of the kinetic parameters showed that the 2,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole 1-oxide type radicals are promising mediators for the living polymerization of acrylates and methacrylates.Introduction. -Nitroxide-mediated polymerization [1] [2] (NMP) is a fine synthetic technique, which allows for the design of new types of homo-and copolymers with welldefined architectures and narrow molecular-mass distributions [3]. The principal mechanism of NMP (Scheme 1) involves the reversible dissociation of a dormant nitroxide end-capped polymer chain with rate constant k d , the propagation of C-centered radicals with rate constant k p , the cross-coupling reaction between the nitroxide and the growing polymer chain with rate constant k c , and simultaneous irreversible self-termination reactions of the C-centered radicals with rate constant k t .
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