An Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory: Synthesis of Well-Defined Polymers by Low-Catalyst-Concentration ATRP and Postpolymerization Modification to Fluorescent Materials

Tsarevsky, Nicolay V.; Woodruff, Shannon R.; Wisian‐Neilson, Patty

doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00738

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“…[82] Importantly, this allows facile implementation of oxygen-free photopolymerization techniques, which are often difficult in, for example, large teaching laboratories. [83]…”

Section: Photochemical Strategies For Oxygen Tolerancementioning

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Seeing the Light: Advancing Materials Chemistry through Photopolymerization

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The application of photochemistry to polymer science has led to the development of complex yet efficient systems for polymerization, polymer post-functionalization, and materials production. Using light to activate chemical pathways in these systems not only leads to exquisite control over reaction dynamics, but also allows complex synthetic protocols to be easily achieved. Compared to polymerization systems mediated by thermal, chemical, or electrochemical means, photoinduced polymerization systems can potentially offer more versatile methods for macromolecular synthesis. We highlight the utility of light as an energy source for mediating photopolymerization, and present some promising examples of systems which are progressing polymer science through their exploitation of photochemistry.

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“…[82] Importantly, this allows facile implementation of oxygen-free photopolymerization techniques, which are often difficult in, for example, large teaching laboratories. [83]…”

Section: Photochemical Strategies For Oxygen Tolerancementioning

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“…The reduction in setup complexity through oxygen tolerant CRP is also useful for introducing polymer chemistry at an undergraduate level . Importantly, this allows facile implementation of oxygen‐free photopolymerization techniques, which are often difficult in, for example, large teaching laboratories …”

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Seeing the Light: Advancing Materials Chemistry through Photopolymerization

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The application of photochemistry to polymer and material science has led to the development of complex yet efficient systems for polymerization, polymer post‐functionalization, and advanced materials production. Using light to activate chemical reaction pathways in these systems not only leads to exquisite control over reaction dynamics, but also allows complex synthetic protocols to be easily achieved. Compared to polymerization systems mediated by thermal, chemical, or electrochemical means, photoinduced polymerization systems can potentially offer more versatile methods for macromolecular synthesis. We highlight the utility of light as an energy source for mediating photopolymerization, and present some promising examples of systems which are advancing materials production through their exploitation of photochemistry.

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“…For these same reasons, RDRP is more suitable than conventional radical polymerisation for undergraduate laboratory experiments in polymer chemistry. Laboratory exercises in AMRP (Tillman, Contrella, & Leasure, 2009), ATRP (Koshut, Arnold, Smith, Wright, & Sydlik, 2019;Matyjaszewski, Beers, Metzner, & Woodworth, 2001;Tsarevsky, Woodruff, & Wisian-Neilson, 2016), and RAFT (Nguyen, Bennet, Stenzel, & Barner-Kowollik, 2008) have been published and are used in many undergraduate chemistry courses, including that at the University of New England.…”

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Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerisation: chain polymerisation made simple

Bagheri

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2021

Chemistry Teacher International

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Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerisation (RDRP) is one of the most exciting developments in chemistry over the past few decades, but it is rarely mentioned when polymerisation mechanisms are introduced in the final years of secondary education or first years of tertiary education. We propose that this is unfortunate, as RDRP is simpler than conventional Radical Polymerisation both conceptually and in terms of setting quantitative problems, and that it illustrates several other important features of chemistry as a human endeavour: How essential mechanistic unities are hidden by the details of how we write a chemical reaction, how a ‘bug’ in one stage of development of a process can become a ‘feature’ in a later stage, and how exciting changes can occur quite suddenly in fields thought to be mature and uninteresting.

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An Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory: Synthesis of Well-Defined Polymers by Low-Catalyst-Concentration ATRP and Postpolymerization Modification to Fluorescent Materials

Cited by 19 publications

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Seeing the Light: Advancing Materials Chemistry through Photopolymerization

Seeing the Light: Advancing Materials Chemistry through Photopolymerization

Seeing the Light: Advancing Materials Chemistry through Photopolymerization

Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerisation: chain polymerisation made simple

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