writer：Huiqi Zhang,* Xulin Jiang, Rob van der Linde*
keywords：Atom transfer radical polymerisation, telechelic polymers, hydroxyl end-group
source：期刊
specific source：Polymer 2004, 45, 1455-1466.
Issue time：2004年
Hydroxyl end-capped telechelic polymers with poly(methyl methacrylate)-block-poly(n-butyl acrylate) (PMMA-b-PBA) backbones have been prepared via atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP) together with a nucleophilic substitution reaction. A hydroxyl-functionalised PMMA macroinitiator (HO-PMMA-Br) was prepared via ATRP at the optimised reaction temperature (60 degreesC) using 2-hydroxyethyl 2-bromoisobutyrate as the initiator. The high functionality of the bromo end group in the macroinitiator was confirmed by both H-1 NMR technique and a chain-extension reaction. Electrospray ionisation mass spectrometer proved to be a valuable tool for characterising PMMAs with a bromo, end group (PMMA-Br), which provided signals corresponding to the intact polymers although multiply charged polymer chains were observed. The well-defined block copolymers HO-PMMA-b-PBA-Br were obtained by the ATRP of n-butyl acrylate using HO-PMMA-Br as a macroinitiator in a one-pot reaction at 100 degreesC. The kinetics as well as the dependence of the M-n,M-SEC and PDIs of the obtained block copolymers on the conversions of n-butyl acrylate in the chain-extension reaction suggested negligible radical termination during the reaction, demonstrating that the well-defined HO-PMMA-b-PBA-Br with a high functionality of bromo end group were obtained. The nucleophilic substitution reaction of a monohydroxyl-functionalised block copolymer HO-PMMA-b-PBA-Br with 5-amino-1-pentanol in dimethyl sulfoxide at room temperature was verified with 1H and 13 C NMR techniques, which resulted in a series of telechelic polymers HO-PMMA-b-PBA-OH with a functionality of hydroxyl groups up to 1.7 according to the gradient polymer elution chromatography.