Well-defined “clickable” copolymers prepared via one-pot synthesis

Abstract

Well-defined "clickable" homo- and co-polymers were synthesised using a living polymerisation technique. Specifically propargyl methacrylate was successfully homo- and co-polymerised using group transfer polymerisation, GTP. This one-pot synthesis was performed without the need to protect the acetylenic group. Finally it was confirmed that the acetylenic functional group was unaffected by the polymerisation by clicking with azide 4-azidobenzoic acid.

Tuning the Gelation of Thermoresponsive Gels Based on Triblock Terpolymers

“…A major source of impurity in the current study is the OEGMA300 monomer, which is not purified via distillation, because of its high MM. This observation has been previously noted in the literature on GTP studies. − ,,,, …”

Effect of block copolymer architecture and composition on gold nanoparticle fabrication

“…Propargyl methacrylate (PMA) groups have also been incorporated into the PEGMA based blocks to enable post-polymerisation functionalisation, such click chemistry to attach imaging or targeting moieties. 34,35 The synthesis of the polymers was performed via an onepot, sequential GTP, similarly to previous reports. 34,[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] The Please do not adjust margins Please do not adjust margins successful synthesis of the polymers was confirmed with gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.…”

Toward Hybrid Materials: Group Transfer Polymerization of 3‐(Trimethoxysilyl)propyl Methacrylate

“…As can be observed in Figure , unlike any controlled free‐radical polymerization techniques, TMSPMA homopolymerization of 10 kg mol −1 with a D = 1.06 took less than 15 min using GTP. In addition, the TMSPMA GTP kinetics was similar to that of the most commonly used methacrylate monomer, methyl methacrylate (MMA) …”

“…In addition, the TMSPMA GTP kinetics was similar to that of the most commonly used methacrylate monomer, methyl methacrylate (MMA). [ 27 ] In order to prove that TMSPMA can easily be homoand copolymerized with GTP, several polymers were synthesized. The polymers were synthesized similarly to previous GTP studies on linear block copolymers [28][29][30][31][32][33] and star polymers.…”