In-situ Chemiluminescence-Driven Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain-Transfer Photopolymerization

  • Nethmi De Alwis Watuthanthrige
  • , Michael L. Allegrezza
  • , Madison T. Dolan
  • , Alex J. Kloster
  • , Marina Kovaliov
  • , Saadyah Averick
  • , Dominik Konkolewicz

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Abstract

The power of chemical light generation (chemiluminescence) is used to drive polymerization reactions. A biphasic reaction is developed such that light-generating reactions are confined to the organic phase and photopolymerization occurs in the aqueous phase. Well-defined RAFT-capped polymers are synthesized and the kinetics are shown to be dictated by light generation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11826-11829
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume58
Issue number34
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Aug 2019
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Funding

We are grateful to Theresa Ramelot for experimental assistance. This work was supported by institutional funds at Miami University.

Funders
University of Miami

    Keywords

    • Chemiluminescence
    • Kinetics
    • Photochemistry
    • Photopolymerization
    • Reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization

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