Synthesis of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate)-Based Polyrotaxane via Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization. 2020

Yu-Cheng Wang, and Rina Maeda, and Gergely Kali, and Hideaki Yokoyama, and Gerhard Wenz, and Kohzo Ito
Material Innovation Research Center (MIRC) and Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan.

A polyrotaxane (PR) with poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) as the main chain polymer was prepared via reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Because of the special mechanism of RAFT, the suprastructure of a PMMA-based PR is established by synthesizing inclusion complexes of methyl methacrylate and gamma-cyclodextrin (γCD) into the middle of the poly-N-(3-dimethylamino) propyl methacrylamide segments. The presence of threaded γCD was determined via diffusion ordered spectroscopy from the alignment of the mobility of γCD and the main chain polymer. A PMMA-based PR with 2-20% CD coverage and a molecular weight of 7K-60K g/mol of PMMA-based PR was synthesized with a targeted molecular structure by mediating the RAFT polymerization. The PMMA-based PR prepared in this study is expected to be suitable for wide applications of tough materials with good heat resistance. Moreover, the investigation of this synthetical approach opened possibilities for more variety of PR with controllable properties.

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