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One-step synthesis of alkoxyamines for nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization
Robert B Grubbs1, Jakub K Wegrzyn, Qing Xia
1Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanomaterials Research, 6128 Burke Laboratory, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. Robert.B.Grubbs@Dartmouth.edu
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 23, 2004
Abstract:
An alkoxyamine that is an effective initiator for the controlled polymerization of styrene and isoprene has been prepared by the reaction of 2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane with two equivalents of radicals derived from 1-bromoethylbenzene.