Synthesis of Well-Defined Vinyl End-Functional Polystyrene Using Multifunctional Initiator by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
- 1 Department of Chemistry, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh
- 2 Department of Chemistry, Bangladesh University of Textiles, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh
Abstract
Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) has proven to be a powerful technique to obtain polymers with narrow polydispersities and controlled molecular weight. It also offers control over chain-ends. N-allyl-2-bromopropinamide (ABPN) was synthesized by one step reaction which involved on amidification of 2-bromo-propionyl bromide with allyl amine. 1H NMR has confirmed the structure of the ABPN. The well-defined polystyrene was synthesized by using ABPN as initiator in ATRP method. The results of the polymerization were significantly affected by reaction conditions. The vinyl end-functional polystyrene obtained was characterized by Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) and NMR analysis.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2015.581.587
Copyright: © 2015 Samiul Islam Chowdhury, Roushown Ali and Tariqul Hasan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Functional Initiator
- Atom Transfer
- Radical Polymerization
- Polystyrene
- Acetamide