Nitroxide-Mediated Alternating Copolymerization of Vinyl Acetate with tert-Butyl-2-trifluoromethacrylate Using a SG1-Based Alkoxyamine. 2016

Sanjib Banerjee, and Ilaria Domenichelli, and Bruno Ameduri
Ingénierie et Architectures Macromoléculaires, Institut Charles Gerhardt, UMR 5253 CNRS, UM, ENSCM, Place Eugéne Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.

Unique alternating copolymers based on vinyl acetate (VAc) and tert-butyl-2-trifluoromethacrylate (MAF-TBE, a nonhomopolymerizable monomer under radical conditions) have been synthesized by nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) using a SG1-based BlocBuilder alkoxyamine (MAMA-SG1) at moderate temperature (at 40 °C) in dimethyl sulfoxide. First-order kinetics and linear evolutions of the molecular weight (up to 17100 g mol-1), maintaining low dispersity values (Đ ≤ 1.33), confirmed the controlled nature of the copolymerization. Interestingly, none of the starting monomers could undergo homopolymerization under the NMP condition initiated by MAMA-SG1. The resulting alternating copolymers were characterized by 1H, 13C, 19F, and 31P NMR spectroscopies and size exclusion chromatography (SEC). The poly(VAc-alt-MAF-TBE) copolymer is amorphous and exhibited a single glass transition temperature of 59 °C. This is the first report of nitroxide-mediated (co)polymerization of VAc leading to well-defined copolymers with satisfactory yields. The results presented in this study established a new route via NMP toward the synthesis of strictly 1:1 alternating fluorocopolymers that can display diverse functionalities.

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