Preparation of star copolymers with three arms of poly(ethylene oxide-co-glycidol)-graft-polystyrene and investigation of their aggregation in water

Polyallene-based graft copolymer via 6-methyl-1,2-heptadien-4-ol and methyl methacrylate

“…The grafting-from method utilized the pendant initiation groups on the backbone to initiate the polymerization of another monomer to form side chains [16]. The development of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) [17e19] and modified ATRP [20,21] has made it feasible to prepare the versatile comb copolymers with the well-defined molecular architectures from the grafting-through [22,23] and grafting-from strategies [24,25]. In particular, side chains can be formed in a well-defined way via ATRP initiated by the pendant halogen-containing initiating groups on the backbone through the grafting-from strategy, the living characteristic of ATRP enabled it to control both the molecular weights and the molecular weight distributions of side chains.…”

Synthesis of acetophenone formaldehyde resin containing ABA type block copolymers by ATRP

“…In the first step, AFR resin was modified with the transformation of the hydroxyl terminal into a reactive CBr terminal with 2‐bromopropionyl bromide (Scheme ). It is well known that 2‐bromopropionates are initiators for ATRP with a high initiating efficiency 27, 43, 44…”

“…Recently, significant progress has been made in the field of living free radical polymerization (FRP), such as nitroxide‐mediated stable FRP, atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), reverse ATRP, and reversible addition‐fragmentation chain transfer 19, 20. Among them, ATRP has been successfully applied to the synthesis of well‐defined macromolecular architectures such as comb, star, branched, and dendritic macromolecules 21–28, 45. ATRP has been shown to be a versatile technique for the controlled polymerization of many monomer classes, including (meth)acrylates, (meth)acrylamides, (substituted) styrenes, and miscellaneous monomers 29–39, 46–47.…”

Synthesis of Amphiphilic Poly(ethylene oxide‐co‐glycidol)‐graft‐polyacrylonitrile Brush Copolymers and their Self‐assembly in Aqueous Media

“…This method has universal significance for the preparation of copolymer brushes. Poly(ethylene oxide‐ co ‐glycidol)‐ graft ‐poly(ϵ‐caprolactone) was obtained by ring opening polymerization28 and poly(ethylene oxide‐ co ‐glycidol)‐graft‐polystyrene by atom transfer radicalpolymerization (ATRP) 29…”