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  • Title: Synthesis of structurally well-defined telechelic polymers by organostibine-mediated living radical polymerization: in situ generation of functionalized chain-transfer agents and selective omega-end-group transformations.
    Author: Yamago S, Yamada T, Togai M, Ukai Y, Kayahara E, Pan N.
    Journal: Chemistry; 2009; 15(4):1018-29. PubMed ID: 19086048.
    Abstract:
    Several organostibine chain-transfer agents possessing polar functional groups have been prepared by the reactions of azo initiators and tetramethyldistibine (1). Carbon-centered radicals thermally generated from the azo initiators were trapped by 1 to yield the corresponding organostibine chain-transfer agents. The high yields observed in the synthesis of the chain-transfer agents strongly suggest that distibines have excellent radicophilic reactivity. As the reactions proceeded under neutral conditions, functional groups that are incompatible with ionic conditions were incorporated into the chain-transfer agents. The chain-transfer agents were used in living radical polymerization to synthesize the corresponding alpha-functionalized polymers. As the functional groups in the chain-transfer agents did not interfere with the polymerization reaction, well-controlled polymers possessing number-average molecular weights (M(n)s) predetermined by the monomer/transfer agent ratios were synthesized with low polydispersity indices (PDIs). The organostibanyl omega-polymer ends were transformed into a number of different functional groups by radical-coupling, radical-addition, and oxidation reactions. Therefore, it was possible to synthesize well-controlled telechelic polymers with the same and also with different functional groups at their alpha- and omega-polymer ends. Distibine 1 was also found to increase PDI control in the living radical polymerization of styrene and methyl methacrylate (MMA) using a purified organostibine chain-transfer agent. Well-controlled poly(methyl methacrylate)s with M(n) values ranging from 10 000 to 120 000 with low PDIs (1.05-1.15) were synthesized by the addition of a catalytic amount of 1. The results have been attributed to the high reactivity of distibine 1 towards polymer-end radicals, which are spontaneously deactivated to yield organostibine dormant species.
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