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A Facial Strategy for Catalyst and Reducing Agent Synchronous Separation for AGET ATRP Using Thiol-Grafted Cellulose
Xiaowu Jiang1, Jie Han2, Lunan Cao3
1Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Palygorskite Science and Applied Technology, College of Chemical Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai'an 223003, China. jiangxiaowu@hyit.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) has been a powerful tool to synthesize well-defined functional polymers, which are widely used in biology, drug/gene delivery and antibacterial materials, etc. However, the potential toxic residues in polymer reduced its service life and limited its applications. In order to overcome the problem, in this work, a novel polymerization system of activators generated by electron transfer for atom transfer radical polymerization (AGET ATRP) for synchronous separation of the metal catalyst and byproduct of reducing agent was developed, using thiol-grafted cellulose paper (Cell-SH) as a solid reducing agent. The polymerization kinetics were investigated in detail, and the "living" features of the novel polymerization system were confirmed by chain-end analysis and chain extension experiment for the resultant polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). It is noted that the copper residual in obtained PMMA was less than 20 ppm, just by filtering the sheet-like byproduct of the reducing agent.
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