Use of Hydrolysis-Robust Cyclic Vinyl Acetals in Radical Ring-Opening Emulsion Copolymerization
Benjamin R. Kordes,
Seema Agarwal
Abstract:Cyclic ketene acetals (CKAs) are often used in radical ring-opening polymerization (rROP) in solution and bulk polymerizations for the synthesis of functional degradable copolymers with ester breakpoints. However, CKAs are very sensitive to hydrolysis, which makes them unfavorable for use in aqueous emulsion polymerization. Therefore, monomers with improved hydrolytic stability are required that undergo rROP under emulsion conditions also giving cleavable breakpoints in the polymer backbone enabling degradabil… Show more
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