Cyclodextrins in polymer synthesis: free radical polymerization of cyclodextrin host-guest complexes of methyl methacrylate or styrene from homogenous aqueous solution

Cyclodextrin in polymer chemistry: Kinetic studies on the free-radical polymerization of cyclodextrin-complexed styrene from homogeneous aqueous solution

“…This new result corresponds with those achieved before with the more hydrophilic monomer MMA [13]. Thus, this is another example of a possible route to perform high-conversion solution polymerization of a hydrophobic monomer in water.…”

“…Furthermore, the preparation and polymerization of equimolar cyclodextrin complexes of commercial standard monomers like styrene 1 and methyl methacrylate (MMA have been described. It was also shown that the precipitation polymerization of a cyclodextrin complex of a poorly water-soluble monomer like MMA can be described by kinetic equations similar to those for the classical polymerization in solution [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20].…”

“…The water-solubility of styrene is approximately ten times lower than the water-solubility of MMA. Additionally the complexation constant is nearly ten times higher for styrene [13,21,22]. The lower water-solubility of styrene and its higher complexation constant with CD compared to the above mentioned MMA complex was the motivation to investigate the dependency of the molecular weight from the initiator concentration.…”

Novel Polymerization of Myrcene in Aqueous Media via Cyclodextrin-Complexes

“…Our group, for these reasons is focused on the use of cyclodextrin (CD) in polymer chemistry. Meanwhile CD's have received a great deal of industrial attention [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29].…”

“…Almost quantitative yields of the copolymers A, B and C were achieved after a reaction time of 24 h in all cases. Only trace amounts of CD still remained in the polymers as detected by In our previous work, we have reported that the polymerization from homogenous, aqueous CD solution is normally much faster and ends up with higher yields and molecular weights than polymerization under similar conditions in an organic solvent [15,21] . The polydispersities (M w /M n ) of polymers (A, B, and E) were similar in all cases.…”